Testing NexusIRL on your phone

NexusIRL is tested on a Galaxy S26 Ultra, a Huawei P30 Pro and the Android emulator. Every phone’s camera, video encoder and network behave a little differently, so reports from other phones are the most useful help there is. Pixels (Tensor), MediaTek and Exynos phones, and Android 11 to 15, are especially wanted.

Before you start

Install the APK for your phone from the latest release: arm64-v8a for practically every phone from the last several years.
You need somewhere to stream to that is not a public channel, for example a private or test stream on your own platform account, or a server you run (server/test-receiver is a small one).
Never share stream keys or passwords in a report. The app’s Share diagnostics (bottom of the main screen) removes them and is the most useful thing to attach.

Checklist

Each takes a few minutes; do as many as you like. They match the Device test report form.

Opens: install, open, allow camera and microphone. The camera preview shows.
Camera: switch back and front, pinch to zoom, turn the torch on.
Recording: tap Record for a minute, stop. The file in Movies/NexusIRL plays, with sound in sync.
SRT or SRTLA: stream for 5 minutes. Watch the stream on another device: no freezes, sound in sync.
RTMP or RTMPS: the same over RTMP.
H.265: Streams → edit → Video → Codec H.265, stream again. If your phone has no H.265 encoder, the app falls back to H.264 and says so.
Bonding: with Wi-Fi and mobile data both on, stream over SRTLA. The status line shows each network’s share.
Camera taken away: while live, open the phone’s Camera app for 10 seconds, then return. The stream keeps going and the picture comes back.
Heat: stay live for 30 minutes and note the thermal state in the status line.
Microphone: if you have one, pick a Bluetooth or USB microphone in the mic picker.

Reporting

Open a Device test report, tick what worked, describe what did not, and attach the diagnostics file. A problem that needs fixing can also go in a bug report.