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enricobuehler cac500acc7 feat(android): the console UI stops moving under the cursor, and gets the desktop's real backdrop
Implements P1–P3 (WP1–WP7) of `punktfunk-planning/design/android-console-ui-visual-refresh.md`.

**The two named bugs.**

Settings rows GREW ON FOCUS. The focused row unfolded its description in place
(`AnimatedVisibility` + `expandVertically`), so every D-pad step shrank one row and grew another
and shifted every row below the cursor — on a list simultaneously being scrolled to keep the
focused row visible, whose target therefore moved out from under it mid-animation. Sideways, the
value's `AnimatedContent` animated its own WIDTH on every step, walking the ‹ chevron back and
forth. Rows are now fixed: the description renders in a floating `ConsoleDetailBand` above the
legend pill — the desktop console's reserved detail band (`screens/settings.rs`) achieved by FLOAT
rather than by subtraction, so an overlay can never displace the list. Apple's per-row
`reservesSpace` was rejected for density. The value slot gets a fixed minimum, end alignment, a
snapped `SizeTransform` and tabular figures, so `1920 × 1080 → 2560 × 1440` changes nothing but
the glyphs. `GamepadSettingsLayoutTest` is the regression net — it drives the real screen and
asserts the neighbouring rows' bounds and the focused label's bounds do not move.

The NP3's HOLE PUNCH sat over settings and add-host content. All twelve console call sites padded
with `systemBarsPadding()`, which EXCLUDES `WindowInsets.displayCutout`; in landscape a punch is a
left/right edge inset with no bar behind it. New `Modifier.consoleSafeArea()` is
`systemBars ∪ displayCutout` (the rule Material3's own components lay out against) and the
floating legends' landscape branch keeps ignoring the bars while still taking the cutout —
`SENSOR_LANDSCAPE` parks the punch on exactly that corner. The backdrop stays full-bleed; it is
ambience, and running under the camera is what ambience should do.

**The premium-feel levers.**

The screen transition is now the desktop console's contract instead of `Crossfade(240)`: push
slides the incoming screen up 36 dp out of a fade at 0.985→1 while the outgoing recedes to 0.96;
pop runs it backwards. Direction comes from a nav depth on `GamepadScreen`. `ConsoleMotion` is the
single motion vocabulary (`shell.rs:29`'s `TRANSITION_S`, `render.rs:120-151`'s geometry, plus the
focus/value/tab tweens that were scattered literals) and `ConsoleShape` the corner radii that were
four literals in as many files. Reduce-motion collapses push/pop to a 90 ms cross-fade.

The backdrop is the desktop's actual field: `mesh_sksl` (`library.rs:433-525`) ported to AGSL —
4×4 bicubic colour mesh, four drifting interior warp points, ±8° hue sway, vignette, scrim, `calm`
— compiled per palette and cached, gated on API 33+ (`RuntimeShader`). `GamepadPalette` already
carried `CELL_RAMP`; it grows `MESH_COLORS`, `MESH_INTERIOR` and `meshColors`, so the 16-cell
table is now literally shared with the Rust. API 28–32 keeps the four-blob field, and a shader
that fails to compile falls back to it rather than taking the console down. The `cross()` builtin
is written out by hand — AGSL's function set is a subset of SkSL's and not worth betting on.
Constants are formatted through `Locale.ROOT`: on a German-locale device `String.format` emits
`0,075`, which is a syntax error in shader source.

`Modifier.consoleGlass` gives every row, field, card and tile a vertical luminance gradient, a
1 px top-edge highlight fading into the border, and — with focus — a drop shadow plus an accent
bloom drawn outside the clip, so focus reads as a lens rather than a recolour. Modals get
`consoleCard()`, which fixes a real bug: the cards were a hardcoded near-black indigo while their
text came from the palette, so on any of the six PALE palettes a dialog rendered dark ink on a
dark card and was unreadable. `GamepadInk` grows `card`, `modalScrim`, `highlight` and `danger`.

Micro-interactions: menu haptics (tick on move, thud on a refused press, pulse on confirm) on the
driving pad's own motors, else the phone body, else silence — a TV has neither; a refused value
step nudges 4 dp toward the press and springs back; the pressed-side chevron ticks 2 dp; the
switch knob squashes at mid-travel; one indicator pill GLIDES between the section tabs instead of
six fills cross-fading; the home carousel dips 0.97 under A and its neighbours turn away on the
Apple client's projected `cos` fan (never `rotation3DEffect` — see its note on the settle flash).

Palette leaks closed: the library's group heading was hardcoded white (invisible on a pale field),
the poster ground a fixed indigo, and the launcher badge read `MaterialTheme.colorScheme.primary`
— the TOUCH theme's wallpaper-seeded colour, nothing to do with the field it sat on. The add-host
caret and the keyboard's fill went the same way. The home header now outranks the controller chip,
which was eating "Select a Host" down to "Selec…" on a 360 dp phone.

Screenshot scenes gain the console home on the mesh (API 36), the same home on the blob fallback
(API 31), a landscape home where the carousel's fan is visible, and a pale-palette pass of each.

Not in this change: WP8 (functional parity gaps) and WP9 (structural) — the plan's own P4/P5, and
the dialog cards' backdrop frost, which would need a `HazeState` plumbed through `ConnectScreen`
to be worth anything behind a 94 %-opaque surface.
2026-08-10 18:20:46 +02:00
..

punktfunk — Android client (phone & TV)

The native Android app for streaming a punktfunk host to your phone, tablet, or Android TV. A Compose app that finds hosts on your network, pairs with a PIN, and streams at the display's own resolution — with hardware HEVC decode, HDR10, and controller support, built for both touch and the couch (D-pad / gamepad focus navigation).

Features

  • Hardware decode — NDK AMediaCodec HEVC → SurfaceView, including HDR10 (Main10 / BT.2020 PQ), with low-latency tuning and a live stats HUD.
  • Audio both ways — Opus + AAudio playback with a jitter ring, plus mic uplink to the host.
  • Controller support — buttons + axes with rumble and HID feedback (lightbar / adaptive triggers); D-pad / gamepad focus navigation for TV and phone.
  • Find hosts automatically — native mDNS discovery; first connect does a one-time SPAKE2 PIN pairing (or TOFU on trusted LANs), then reconnects on a Keystore-wrapped, pinned identity.
  • Compose UI — Connect / Settings / Stream screens with Material You theming.

Built for arm64-v8a + armeabi-v7a + x86_64 — the 32-bit armeabi-v7a slice is what keeps the app installable on the many 32-bit Google TV / Android TV streamers (Walmart onn. 4K, Chromecast with Google TV, budget Amlogic boxes) that otherwise reject a 64-bit-only build as "not compatible".

Get it

Published to Google Play (Internal Testing) — join the beta via the Discord. Per-device setup and pairing: docs.punktfunk.unom.io/docs/install-client.

How it's built — Rust-heavy

Kotlin can't import the cbindgen C header the way Swift can, so a native bridge is unavoidable. We write it in Rust and link punktfunk-core directly — so the Android client reuses the Linux client's orchestration (audio jitter ring, VK keymap inverse, latency/skew math, capture state machine, trust logic) instead of re-porting it into Kotlin.

Side Owns
Rust (native/libpunktfunk_android.so) the JNI seam, NativeClient (QUIC control + UDP data plane), AnnexB → AMediaCodec decode (incl. HDR10), Opus + AAudio audio + mic, controller feedback, latency math, trust/pairing, mdns-sd discovery
Kotlin (app/, kit/) Compose UI, SurfaceView lifecycle, input capture, the Wi-Fi MulticastLock + permission UX, Keystore identity

The single seam is io.unom.punktfunk.kit.NativeBridgeJava_io_unom_punktfunk_kit_NativeBridge_*.

native/           Rust cdylib (workspace member) — links punktfunk-core directly
  src/lib.rs        crate doc · JNI_OnLoad · version probes
  src/session/      session lifecycle: connect/pair + trust, plane start/stop, input shims
  src/decode.rs     AnnexB → AMediaCodec HEVC hardware decode → SurfaceView (incl. HDR10)
  src/audio.rs · src/mic.rs   Opus + AAudio playback / mic uplink
  src/feedback.rs · src/stats.rs   rumble + HID feedback; live video stats
  src/discovery.rs  native mdns-sd browse of the host's _punktfunk._udp advert
app/              :app — Compose UI: Connect / Settings / Stream (phone + TV)
kit/              :kit — NativeBridge · native mDNS discovery · Gamepad · Keymap · Keystore identity

Build & run

Prerequisites: Android SDK + NDK r30 (30.0.14904198), platforms;android-37.0, build-tools;37.0.0, cmake;3.22.1 (builds libopus); JDK 21 (AGP 9.2 runs on JDK 1721, not a newer default); Rust with rustup target add aarch64-linux-android armv7-linux-androideabi x86_64-linux-android and cargo install cargo-ndk. Toolchain is pinned (AGP 9.2 · Gradle 9.4.1 · Kotlin 2.3.21 · Compose BOM 2026.05.01 · compileSdk 37 · minSdk 28).

Android Studio: open clients/android — it uses its bundled JBR 21, and the cargoNdk* task builds the .so as part of the normal build.

CLI (point Gradle at JDK 21 if your machine default is newer):

export JAVA_HOME="$(/usr/libexec/java_home -v 21)"   # or your Temurin 21 path
cd clients/android
./gradlew :app:assembleDebug     # cargo-ndk cross-compiles libpunktfunk_android.so first
./gradlew :app:installDebug      # onto a running emulator/device
# emulators from env setup:  emulator -avd pf_phone   |   emulator -avd pf_tv

The debug APK lands in app/build/outputs/apk/debug/. Launch it, pick a host, pair, and stream.