From eac753c436d64adf921ae2cbdd0d09e095a5e5a3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Christophe Besson Date: Sat, 3 Oct 2026 13:41:30 +0200 Subject: docs: the Android client MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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 --- docs/USERGUIDE.md | 17 +++++++++++------ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) (limited to 'docs/USERGUIDE.md') diff --git a/docs/USERGUIDE.md b/docs/USERGUIDE.md index d631804..ad51982 100644 --- a/docs/USERGUIDE.md +++ b/docs/USERGUIDE.md @@ -392,9 +392,10 @@ resume. ### 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. -- cgit v1.2.3