whoot. is now on Android.

The whoot. Android app is live on Google Play. Every room, every wire, every alert: native on the handsets your team already carries, from Android 8.0 up.

whoot. team · July 2026 · 5 min read

Native Kotlin and Jetpack Compose, not a wrapper around the web app
Talk, stop, and switch rooms from the lock-screen notification
Emergency alerts on a dedicated channel that bypasses Do Not Disturb
One APK, two layouts: phone in the field, turret grid on a fixed tablet

Sheet 1Product Launch · July 2026 · 5 min read

Jul 2026

whoot. team

The handset your team actually carries. Now runs whoot.

We shipped iOS in April, and the gap it left was obvious from the first week. Security teams issue rugged Androids. Warehouses buy them by the pallet. Field engineers, stewards, dispatchers and door teams are overwhelmingly not carrying iPhones, and a comms platform that covers half a workforce doesn't cover the workforce.

Today that gap closes. The whoot. Android app is live on Google Play: a ground-up native client written in Kotlin and Jetpack Compose, speaking WebRTC to exactly the same media servers as the web app and iOS. Not a port. Not a web view in a shell. The same <150ms push-to-talk, from a £120 handset.

It also does two things the iPhone can't. A locked phone in a pocket still shows Talk, Stop and Switch on its notification: press to transmit without ever unlocking. And on a 10-inch tablet the same APK switches into a turret layout: a fixed-station grid of room tiles, each with its own PTT, live transcript and transmit state, driven by finger or by the hardware buttons a control-room desk already has.

Detail

What it does

Everything you need, on the go

The full whoot. experience, built natively for Android.

Push-to-Talk: One tap to talk: the same <150ms end-to-end voice path as web and iOS
Talk, stop, and cycle rooms from the lock-screen notification
Wired, Bluetooth, and USB headset routing with a manual output picker
Full Room Access: Every room you're assigned to, live the moment you sign in
See who's talking, who's listening: switch rooms in one tap
Live transcripts, messages, and tap-to-replay on any utterance
Alerts That Land: Separate notification channels for messages, PTT, calls, and emergencies
Emergency alerts bypass Do Not Disturb and use the alarm stream
Answer, decline, or respond to an alert without unlocking the phone
Live Presence: See who's online, away, or busy across your entire team
Presence syncs seamlessly between Android, iOS, and desktop
Directory search with a private wire straight to any colleague
Secure by Default: Biometric app lock, cryptographically enforced, not a settings toggle
SSO with PKCE, MFA at sign-in, and the same room permissions as web
Session tokens sealed in the Android keystore; screenshots blocked
Seamless Sync: Start a conversation on desktop, continue on the handset
Rooms, messages, and settings perfectly in sync
One account, one workspace, every device

Design

How it is built

Built natively. Not wrapped.

Kotlin and Jetpack Compose throughout, with WebRTC on the wire. A foreground service holds the room open so audio keeps flowing with the screen off and the phone in a pocket, and on the turret a dedicated input bus turns whatever hardware button is to hand: headset hook, media key, function key, into a press-to-transmit.

Built natively with Kotlin and Jetpack Compose, no web view, no wrapper
WebRTC talking to the same SFU as every other whoot. client
Foreground service keeps rooms live and transmitting with the screen off
Hardware PTT on the turret: headset hook, media keys, and F1–F12
Tablet turret layout for fixed control-room stations, same APK
Android 8.0 (API 26) and up, targeting Android 15

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The handset your team actually carries. Now runs whoot.

Everything you need, on the go

The full whoot. experience, built natively for Android.

Push-to-Talk

One tap to talk: the same <150ms end-to-end voice path as web and iOS
Talk, stop, and cycle rooms from the lock-screen notification
Wired, Bluetooth, and USB headset routing with a manual output picker

Full Room Access

Every room you're assigned to, live the moment you sign in
See who's talking, who's listening: switch rooms in one tap
Live transcripts, messages, and tap-to-replay on any utterance

Alerts That Land

Separate notification channels for messages, PTT, calls, and emergencies
Emergency alerts bypass Do Not Disturb and use the alarm stream
Answer, decline, or respond to an alert without unlocking the phone

Live Presence

See who's online, away, or busy across your entire team
Presence syncs seamlessly between Android, iOS, and desktop
Directory search with a private wire straight to any colleague

Secure by Default

Biometric app lock, cryptographically enforced, not a settings toggle
SSO with PKCE, MFA at sign-in, and the same room permissions as web
Session tokens sealed in the Android keystore; screenshots blocked

Seamless Sync

Start a conversation on desktop, continue on the handset
Rooms, messages, and settings perfectly in sync
One account, one workspace, every device

Built natively. Not wrapped.

Built natively with Kotlin and Jetpack Compose, no web view, no wrapper

WebRTC talking to the same SFU as every other whoot. client

Foreground service keeps rooms live and transmitting with the screen off

Hardware PTT on the turret: headset hook, media keys, and F1–F12

Tablet turret layout for fixed control-room stations, same APK

Android 8.0 (API 26) and up, targeting Android 15