Boop
com.derpbiscuit.boop
Zapstore _@zapstore.dev Pop a nearby person’s bubble. A tiny Boop over Bluetooth, with no Internet
Republished from GitHub / F-Droid by the Zapstore main account.
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.
First release: Oct 13, 2026, 1 total release.
Most recent release: Oct 13, 2026.
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- Oct 13, 2026 android-v0.2.4Boop 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.
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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.