Crow Android v1.4.0 — Meta Ray-Ban Glasses Integration

New: Meta Ray-Ban (Gen 2) Glasses Integration

Pair your Meta Ray-Ban smart glasses with Crow and drive them with your own BYOAI. Voice turns captured on the glasses flow through your configured Speech-to-Text → AI → Text-to-Speech profiles on your Crow instance and play back through the glasses' speakers.

• Uses Meta's official Wearables Device Access Toolkit — no firmware jailbreak
• Gen 2 only (Ray-Ban Stories / Gen 1 is not supported by DAT)
• New foreground service (GlassesService) maintains the /session WebSocket to your Crow gateway
• New PairingActivity exposes window.Crow.launchGlassesPairing() to the dashboard
• See the Meta Glasses guide for full setup

Also requires the matching meta-glasses bundle on your gateway (install from the Extensions page).

⚠️ Debug-signed build

This APK is signed with the debug keystore because only the debug SHA-256 fingerprint is currently registered at Meta's Wearables Developer Center for this app. A release-signed v1.4.0 will ship once the release keystore fingerprint is also authorized. In the meantime:

• If you have v1.3.0 installed, uninstall it before installing v1.4.0 — Android refuses to upgrade across different signing keys.
• Everything except the Meta Glasses pairing works the same as v1.3.0 release builds.

Requirements

• Android 14 (API 34) or newer — the connected-device foreground service and the DAT SDK both require it. Older Android versions should stay on v1.3.0.
• A running Crow gateway with the meta-glasses bundle installed (if you want to use glasses pairing)
• A Meta Ray-Ban (Gen 2) pair already paired in the Meta AI companion app (if you want to use glasses pairing)

Changelog

• Android app: version 1.4.0 (code 5), minSdk raised from 24 to 34
• New Java classes: PairingActivity, GlassesService, GlassesTokenStore (EncryptedSharedPreferences-backed), WakeWordEngine (stub)
• New permissions: BLUETOOTH_CONNECT, BLUETOOTH_SCAN, FOREGROUND_SERVICE_CONNECTED_DEVICE
• New JavaScript bridge: window.Crow.launchGlassesPairing() and window.Crow.appVersion()
• User-Agent updated to CrowAndroid/1.4.0
• New dependency: OkHttp 4.12.0 for /session WebSocket; Meta Wearables DAT 0.5.0 (mwdat-core, mwdat-camera)

Gateway-side PR summary (latest Crow backend needs to be deployed alongside this APK):

• Platform TTS profiles (tts_profiles) with 6 adapters: OpenAI, ElevenLabs, Azure, Edge, Piper, Kokoro
• Platform STT profiles (stt_profiles) with 5 adapters: OpenAI Whisper, Groq, Deepgram, whisper.cpp, faster-whisper
• meta-glasses bundle with REST API + /session WebSocket
• Companion bundle settings reorganized; TTS migrated onto platform tts_profiles

SHA-256: 953e32f584fb5fac95c818961c8c539fd1fb1de18884d608092f136dde6cd75b

Crow Android v1.3.0 — Instant Push Notifications

What's New

Instant push notifications via ntfy — When the ntfy bundle is installed on your Crow instance, the app maintains a persistent connection and delivers notifications within a second. No separate ntfy app needed.

• NtfyListenerService: foreground service with JSON streaming, exponential backoff reconnection, config caching for boot reliability
• BootReceiver: auto-starts the push listener on device reboot
• Encrypted auth token storage (EncryptedSharedPreferences)
• since= parameter prevents message replay on reconnect
• Background polling (15-min WorkManager) continues as fallback

Requirements

• Android 7.0+ (API 24)
• Crow gateway with ntfy bundle installed (crow bundle install ntfy)
• Tailscale for remote access

Install

1. Download app-release.apk below
2. Enable "Install from unknown sources" for your browser
3. Install and enter your gateway URL

Crow Android App v1.2.0

What's New

Video & Audio Calls

• Peer-to-peer voice and video calling with contacts
• Camera permission support (requested only when video is first enabled)
• Compound audio + camera permission flow (audio first, then camera)
• Graceful fallback: if camera is denied, audio-only calling still works
• Adaptive video quality based on network conditions

AI Companion Integration

When the Calls and Companion bundles are both installed:

• AI companion pill in voice panel with speaking indicators
• Avatar and "both" representation modes
• Live2D avatar sync via DataChannel
• Face tracking (MediaPipe Face Mesh) for camera-driven expressions
• Video call as a window manager app type

Technical

• versionCode: 3, versionName: 1.2.0
• Min SDK: 24 (Android 7.0)
• Target SDK: 34
• Signed release APK

Crow Android App v1.1.0

What's New

Companion Voice Chat Support

• Added RECORD_AUDIO and MODIFY_AUDIO_SETTINGS permissions for microphone access
• WebView now grants microphone/camera permissions when the companion requests them via onPermissionRequest()
• Runtime permission flow: prompts user on first mic request, then grants to WebView

These changes enable the AI Companion's voice chat to work within the Android app's WebView.

Downloads

• app-release.apk — Signed release build (recommended)
• app-debug.apk — Debug build

Requirements

• Android 7.0+ (API 24)
• JDK 17 for building from source

Crow Android App v1.0.0

Crow's Nest Android app — WebView shell with Tailscale helper for remote access to your Crow instance.

Features

• WebView wrapping the Crow's Nest dashboard
• Tailscale connection helper (detect, install, connect)
• Pull-to-refresh
• File upload support
• External links open in system browser

Install

1. Download crow-android.apk below
2. Enable 'Install from unknown sources' on your Android device
3. Install the APK
4. Enter your gateway URL (e.g., http://100.121.254.89:3001)
5. Optionally install Tailscale for remote access