Warning
Pre-Alpha Software - This project is under heavy development and not ready for production use. APIs may change without notice. Use at your own risk.
Native Android app for privacy-focused contact card exchange.
- Contact Card Management: Create and edit your personal contact card
- QR Exchange: Scan or display QR codes to exchange contacts in-person
- Selective Visibility: Control which contacts see which fields
- Background Sync: Automatic updates via WorkManager (15-min intervals)
- Encrypted Backup: Export/import with password-protected encryption
- Kotlin + Jetpack Compose (Material Design 3)
- UniFFI bindings to Rust core (
vauchi-mobile) - CameraX + ML Kit for QR scanning
- Android KeyStore for secure key storage
# Build and install (requires Android SDK)
./gradlew installDebug
# Or open in Android Studio- Android SDK: Compile 35, Min 24, Target 35
- Java 17
- Rust toolchain (for building native library from source)
app/src/main/kotlin/com/vauchi/
├── MainActivity.kt # Entry point
├── VauchiApp.kt # Application class
├── ui/screens/ # Compose screens
├── data/ # Repository, KeyStore helper
└── viewmodels/ # ViewModel layer
| Repository | Description |
|---|---|
| vauchi/code | Core Rust library (source of UniFFI bindings) |
| vauchi/ios | iOS app (SwiftUI) |
| vauchi/docs | Documentation |
| vauchi/dev-tools | Build scripts and workspace tools |
This app requires the vauchi-mobile UniFFI bindings from the core repo:
# Option 1: Download from CI (when available)
# See dev-tools repo for download script
# Option 2: Build from source
git clone git@gitlab.com:vauchi/code.git ../code
cd ../code
cargo build -p vauchi-mobile --release --target aarch64-linux-android./gradlew assembleDebug # Debug build
./gradlew assembleRelease # Release build
./gradlew installDebug # Install to connected device./gradlew test # Unit tests
./gradlew connectedAndroidTest # Instrumented tests- Check vauchi/docs for architecture decisions
- Follow Kotlin coding conventions and Material Design 3 guidelines
- Write tests for new features
- Core library changes go to vauchi/code
Vauchi is open source and community-funded — no VC money, no data harvesting.
- GitHub Sponsors
- Liberapay
- Supporters for sponsorship tiers
MIT