SmarterTube 31.70-mobile-alpha1 — phone port (alpha)

SmarterTube 31.70-mobile-alpha1

First alpha of the phone port for SmarterTube, on top of upstream SmartTube 31.70.

The TV-only upstream app has been rebuilt as a portrait phone app with native touch screens — all driven by the unchanged upstream presenters, so the fork stays mergeable.

What works on a phone

• Home — drawer menu (edge-swipe or toolbar), stacked shelves for ROW sections, 2-column grid for GRID sections
• Search — toolbar query field, tag suggestions, results grid, scroll pagination, voice button (falls back to keyboard)
• Settings — phone-native section list and phone-native settings dialog (radio / checkbox / switch / button / long-text rows); replaces the Leanback infinite-scroll dialog
• Channel — back + channel title, horizontally-scrolling shelves with per-shelf pagination
• Channel uploads / playlists — 2-column grid with scroll-to-bottom pagination
• Sign-in — in-app Chrome Custom Tab device-code flow (single-phone friendly, no QR)
• Playback — landscape player, portrait Shorts, returns to the correct caller screen

Known limitations

• Single-device, single-account smoke tested only
• No tablet layouts (sw600dp qualifiers deferred)
• No light/dark theming
• No pull-to-refresh
• Native voice search not yet wired to RecognizerIntent
• Player UI is still the reused TV one (touch works; not phone-styled)
• Some screens (Add device, Web browser) still route to the TV activities

Install

Pick the APK matching your CPU:

• arm64-v8a — modern 64-bit phones (almost certainly what you want)
• armeabi-v7a — older 32-bit phones
• universal — works anywhere, larger download
• x86 — emulators only

This is alpha: expect rough edges, file issues, and don't be surprised by a regression. Co-installable with the upstream TV build (different application id).

Built from

• Branch phone-port-31.70
• Tag 31.70-mobile-alpha1