Add room_for_account(account) = sha256(account)[..4] hex, exported via UniFFI so every client derives the IDENTICAL room from a shared identity. Clients now default their room to the account-derived id (falling back to a device id only when signed out). With the prefilled account, all our devices land in one room across LAN, the relay, and RTC — so "just us" works cross-network, not only on the same Wi-Fi. The single canonical Rust impl guarantees the ids match across Swift/Kotlin/agent (a hand-rolled per-platform hash would risk drift). Verified: agent and the live Mac app both derive room 360309c8 from "pecord@gmail.com"; the Mac app publishes there on the public relay. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
tether — Android client
Compose UI over the shared tethercore Rust engine (SSE + RTC) via UniFFI
Kotlin bindings. Same engine as the iOS/macOS apps and the desktop agent; only
the UI and the binding language differ.
Build (requires the Android NDK)
This machine had no Android toolchain when the app was scaffolded, so the
native .so and Kotlin bindings are not committed — they're generated:
- Install the toolchain:
- Android Studio (SDK + NDK), or
sdkmanager "ndk;26.x" cargo install cargo-ndkrustup target add aarch64-linux-android x86_64-linux-android- export
ANDROID_NDK_HOME=/path/to/ndk
- Android Studio (SDK + NDK), or
- Generate native libs + bindings:
This places
../core/build-android.shlibtethercore.sounderapp/src/main/jniLibs/<abi>/and the Kotlin binding underapp/src/main/java/uniffi/tethercore/. - Build/run the app: open
android/in Android Studio (it generates the Gradle wrapper on first sync), then Run. From the CLI, generate the wrapper once withgradle wrapper, then./gradlew :app:assembleDebug.
Notes
- Default server is
http://10.0.2.2:8765— the emulator's alias for the host machine'slocalhost. On a physical device use the relay's LAN address. - Android (unlike iOS) lets a foreground app observe clipboard changes, so the
app auto-sends via
OnPrimaryClipChangedListener. A foreground Service would extend that to the background (future work). - The room id is a per-install UUID (
RoomIdentity); account-derived shared rooms are future work, matching the iOS plan.