Boop
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Local social bubble toy using Bluetooth Low Energy. Nearby people appear as named bubbles; tap one to send a Boop notification with emoji replies. Includes decorative bubbles for local play without accounts or internet.
See a nearby person. Pop their bubble. They get Booped.
Boop is a small, local-only native Android app. Translucent animated soap bubbles drift in a calm little field. Decorative bubbles pop only on your own phone; named bubbles represent real nearby people who opted in. Tap a person’s bubble to send a direct Bluetooth Low Energy Boop. Their phone posts a small notification, and they can reply with one of five emoji before meeting in person.
• Procedural iridescent bubbles: grab, fling or stir empty space, with film-petal pops and quiet synthesized contacts. • A name and accent color, without profiles, accounts or a friend list. • Basic foreground discovery; optional Background Boops and Floating Boops are off by default. • Contextual Bluetooth/notification permissions; overlays require a separate explicit choice. • No Internet permission, trackers, analytics, ads, cloud, Google Play Services or proprietary backend. • Open documented Boop BLE Protocol v1; no pairing or bonding. • System/light/dark themes, accessible named bubbles and continuous motion independent of Android UI animation settings.
Android 12+ and BLE advertising support required. Background discovery requires Android’s persistent service notification and can be interrupted by battery restrictions or force-stop. Floating bubbles never read another app or appear on the lock screen. Nearby names and identifiers are public radio information; messages are not encrypted or authenticated. This is a playful social Boop, not secure messaging.
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Uses the overlay permission to draw floating bubbles over other apps. Data stays on the phone.
Permissions
- Nearby devices BLUETOOTH_CONNECT Find and connect to devices around you
- Notifications POST_NOTIFICATIONS Send you notifications
- Overlay SYSTEM_ALERT_WINDOW Draw over other apps To draw floating bubbles over other apps.
Release notes
Boop is a small local Bluetooth bubble toy and social app for Android 12+.
Pop a nearby person's named bubble to send a Boop. Drag, fling and stir the ambient bubbles for local play. Physical collisions never send Boops. Background and Floating Boops are optional and off by default.
This release includes the Playful Shimmer bubble field, quiet procedural Soft Dimple contacts, varied local pops, emoji display names and replies, a conservative incoming-name filter, and the small More/About menu. The reusable protocol codec and license/asset notices are included.
No Internet permission, accounts, cloud service, trackers or analytics. Bluetooth identities and messages are local, plaintext and unauthenticated; see the repository privacy and protocol documentation.
Install: download the production-signed APK below. Previous debug previews use a different signing key and cannot be updated in place by this production APK.
Source commit: 490674abe80061a306d87f7f0355544ccffb9033
Version: 0.2.4 / code 7
APK SHA-256: 48884d37e6fe9251b4d87ecb139bdd007f394ffd4f0e2b9a1929bf43a42c2c2b
Certificate SHA-256: e175c8eee4083f667eaa23c47401c23efeccd0854f064b223b320743908a25fc
Release R8/resource shrinking, Android tests, asset checks and source-build reproducibility passed. F-Droid inclusion requires a separate maintainer review; this GitLab release does not mean the app is already available in F-Droid.
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