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PhoneCam v1.5 — preview-first PC app (video fills the window, floating controls)

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@Erik1028 Erik1028 released this 03 Jul 05:26
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A preview-first PC app — the phone's picture now gets the whole window.

🖥️ Redesigned desktop window

  • The video fills the entire window. The old fixed side panel is gone.
  • Controls float on top as translucent overlays: connection status (top-left), Settings + Fullscreen (top-right), and a Start/Stop button centered at the bottom (red while live).
  • The QR code, setup steps, virtual-camera selector and tools moved into a Settings panel (gear button, or Ctrl+,). It opens automatically on launch so the QR is right there, and tucks itself away once your phone connects — so while you're on a call it's pure preview.
  • Fullscreen (F11) keeps just the floating controls. The third status light now reads "Webcam" (clearer than the old "Viewer" count).

🧪 Hardening

The redesign went through a multi-agent adversarial review; six issues were fixed before release — including the "Webcam" light no longer showing green when no virtual camera exists, a guard against a first-run certificate race, and Escape correctly leaving fullscreen from the Settings panel. (The overlay-over-video layering was verified against the bundled Qt version.)

The phone page is unchanged from v1.4 (corner Stop, double-tap flip, zoom snap, plain status copy, etc.).

📦 Install

  • PhoneCam-SingleFile.exe — one file, nothing to unzip (first run unpacks itself ~20 s, later runs start instantly). SmartScreen may warn → More info → Run anyway (unsigned, not harmful).
  • PhoneCam-Portable.zip — the classic folder; extract anywhere and run PhoneCam.exe.

Upgrading? Replace the app; reload the phone page once (⟳).