Android app to revive a 10+ year old phone as an IP camera.
Platform: Should work on any Android 6 and Above!
Streaming: RTSP H.264 + AAC defaulted to 15 fps, 1 Mbps
UI: Jetpack Compose + Material 2
Features:
- Zero-install: sideload APK → grant camera+mic → Start
- Auto-discovers device IPv4 at runtime
- Sub-4 s latency in
ffplay - Settings (resolution, fps, bitrate, rotation, port) are saved in
settings.json
Pain points:
- Learning Android Studio & Gradle
- RTSP/TCP buffering quirks
- JitPack dependency deprecations
- AI suggestions defaulting to Material 3 when I needed Material 2
