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authorChristophe Besson <cbesson@gmail.com>2026-10-03 13:41:30 +0200
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docs: the Android client
Design §11.3/§11.4/§15 state what is built and what the phone found; the user guide drops 'no Android client'; CLAUDE.md gains the package's locators and the lessons casting from a phone taught. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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### Casting to a TV
-**Desktop application only.** A film playing in the application can be sent to a
-cast-capable TV or dongle on the same network: *Cast to device* in the player,
-pick one from the list. Devices appear as they answer, usually within a couple
+**The desktop and Android applications.** A film playing in the application can
+be sent to a cast-capable TV or dongle on the same network: *Cast to device* in
+the player, pick one from the list. On a phone, the film goes on playing silently
+on the phone while the TV shows it, and the screen can be turned off. Devices appear as they answer, usually within a couple
of seconds; the search carries on for a few more, for a TV that is still
waking up.
@@ -967,12 +968,16 @@ Better to know now than to go looking for it:
is nothing to check a download against and no updates through your
distribution. Until that ships, take them from the download page and from
nowhere else.
-- **There is no Android client.** A phone browser works.
+- **The Android application is not released yet.** It works — groups, chat,
+ films, downloads, casting — but is built and installed by hand and signed
+ with a development key, so there is no store page and no update channel. The
+ back button and the lock screen do not drive it yet. A phone browser works
+ too.
- **A node cannot be hosted on Android**, and is not planned to be.
- **Hubs do not talk to each other yet.** Everyone in a group needs an account
on the same hub.
-- **Casting reaches Chromecast devices** from the desktop application. Support
- for other TV protocols is designed but not built.
+- **Casting reaches Chromecast devices** from the desktop and Android
+ applications. Support for other TV protocols is designed but not built.
- **Some subtitle tracks cannot be shown** — the ones stored as images rather
than text, roughly one embedded track in five. Displaying them would need
text recognition.