Starling Android

Android client for Starling — a federated, peer-to-peer communications platform with no company in the middle.

Status: 📋 Planned — not yet started. The terminal client, Starling-TUI, is the working client today. This repo is a placeholder for the phone app. A phone app won't install through the desktop launcher — it'll ship as a normal Android package when ready.

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What this will be

Starling in your pocket: join a flock, chat, and take voice/video calls over the murmuration from an Android phone — peer-to-peer, end-to-end encrypted, with no central server routing your messages.

The mobile build has the hardest constraints of any client — background connectivity, battery, doze mode, and OS mic/camera permissions — which is why it comes after the desktop and web clients prove the shared core on easier ground.

How it's built (planned)

Same stack as the desktop and web clients: a SolidJS frontend in a Tauri shell (Tauri targets Android as well as desktop), with the starling-server library as the Rust backend, cross-compiled for aarch64-linux-android. Sharing the frontend and core with the other clients is the whole point — the mobile-specific work is in the shell, not the protocol.

Piece	Stack
Frontend	SolidJS
App shell	Tauri (Android target)
Protocol / networking	starling-server library, cross-compiled for Android
Open questions	Background service model, push/wake strategy, foreground-call notifications

Following along

• Design and roadmap live in the main Starling repo.
• The protocol this will implement is documented in Starling-Server.

License

Apache 2.0