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Claude 487c68419e Add app shell with Euchre and Sequence, LAN/Bluetooth play
First vertical slice: the whole shell plus two games playable end to end,
so every layer is exercised before the other nine games are built on it.

Games
- Euchre: bowers, ordering up, dealer discard, going alone, stick the
  dealer, and full scoring. Rule variants (deck size, points to win,
  stick the dealer, going alone) are toggles in game setup.
- Sequence: two-eyed and one-eyed jacks, free corners, locked sequences,
  the shared-chip limit, and dead-card exchange. Teams, players per team
  and the sequence target are toggles.
- The board layout in SequenceBoard is generated, not the commercial
  board — it holds every structural property the rules need, but does not
  match a physical board. Documented in docs/RULES-sequence.md.

Multiplayer
- One transport abstraction over newline-delimited JSON, implemented
  twice: LAN via NSD discovery and TCP, Bluetooth via Classic RFCOMM.
  A lobby advertises on both at once, so a table can mix them.
- Host-authoritative: clients send move intents, the host re-validates
  every one against the rules, and each client receives a state redacted
  for its own seat so hidden information never crosses the wire.
- Seats start as AI and are handed to people as they join, which is what
  makes any mix of humans and AI work without a separate code path.

Shell
- Main menu lists all eleven games; the nine without engines are marked
  coming soon and are driven entirely by GameCatalog.
- Settings: sound, animation speed (one multiplier drives card movement
  and AI thinking time), and OTA updates from the latest GitHub release.
- Layouts measure available space rather than assuming an orientation.

The game package is free of Android types, so the rules engines and AI
run under plain JUnit; 43 tests cover ranking, following suit, scoring,
sequence detection, redaction, wire round-trips and full random and AI
playthroughs.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015qjfMiPUDshdKEUa6vxqzN
2026-08-05 22:37:05 +00:00

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# Pro Libertate Games
A collection of card and board games for Android, playable against the computer
or against other people over Wi-Fi (LAN) or Bluetooth.
## What works today
The app shell is complete and two games are playable end to end:
| | |
| --- | --- |
| **Playable** | Euchre, Sequence |
| **Listed, not yet implemented** | Kaiser, President, Golf, Wizard, Crazy 8s, Mastermind, Backgammon, Chess, Checkers |
Unimplemented games appear in the menu marked *Coming soon*. Adding one means
writing a `GameRules` implementation, a `GameAi`, and a screen, then flipping
`available` in `GameCatalog` — the menu, lobby, networking, settings and OTA
layers are game-agnostic and need no changes.
## Playing with other people
Pick a game, choose **Host a game for others to join**, and the device advertises
itself on every radio it has. Other devices choose **Join a game nearby** and
pick the host from the list. Seats start out filled by the computer and are
handed to people as they join, so any mix of humans and AI works — whatever is
still marked *Computer* when the host starts stays AI.
- **Wi-Fi (LAN)** — both devices must be on the same network. Discovery uses
mDNS/NSD; play runs over a TCP socket.
- **Bluetooth** — devices must already be **paired** in Android's Bluetooth
settings. Play runs over Classic RFCOMM. Scanning for unpaired devices is not
implemented.
Both transports can be live at once, so some players can be on Wi-Fi and others
on Bluetooth at the same table.
### How a match is kept in step
The host is authoritative. Clients send *intents* ("I would like to play this
card") and the host re-validates every one against the rules before it takes
effect — a client cannot make an illegal move by sending a malformed message.
Each client is then sent a state **redacted for its own seat**, so opponents'
hands and the deck order are never transmitted to devices that should not see
them.
## Settings
- **Sound** on/off.
- **Animation speed**, 0.5×–2×. One multiplier drives card movement and how long
the computer appears to think.
- **Updates** — check on launch, or check on demand. Updates are pulled from the
latest GitHub Release of this repository, which CI publishes on every push to
`main`.
## Screen sizes
There are no fixed orientations or hard-coded card sizes. Layouts measure the
space they are given: the menu grid reflows by width, the Sequence board is
always square and sized to fit whatever is left after the hand, and card widths
are a fraction of the smaller screen dimension. Rotation is handled inside the
activity, so a hand is not lost when the device turns.
## Building
```sh
./gradlew assembleDebug # APK at app/build/outputs/apk/debug/
./gradlew testDebugUnitTest # rules engines and AI
```
Requires JDK 17 and the Android SDK (compileSdk 34).
## CI
- `.github/workflows/ci.yml` — builds, tests and lints on `dev` and on pull
requests into `dev` or `main`.
- `.github/workflows/release.yml` — on push to `main`, builds the APK and
publishes it as a GitHub Release tagged `v1.0.<run-number>`. The in-app updater
reads that tag, which is why the APK's `versionCode` is the same run number.
The debug keystore is committed on purpose: every build is signed with the same
key, so an OTA update installs over the previous one instead of being rejected
for a signature mismatch.
## Rules
The exact rules implemented, and the options that vary them, are documented per
game:
- [Euchre](docs/RULES-euchre.md)
- [Sequence](docs/RULES-sequence.md) — **note the caveat about the board layout**
## Layout
```
game/ rules engines and AI — pure Kotlin, no Android, unit-tested
cards/ deck, suits, ranks
engine/ GameRules / GameAi contracts, seats, table config
euchre/ Euchre model, rules, AI
sequence/ Sequence model, board, rules, AI
net/ wire protocol, LAN and Bluetooth transports, lobby, match driver
settings/ DataStore-backed preferences
update/ GitHub Releases OTA updater
ui/ Compose screens
```
Keeping `game/` free of Android types is deliberate: the same code drives the
AI, the host's authoritative state and the JVM unit tests.