Torrent Player P2P app for Android description
Torrent Player is a lightweight, high-performance torrent downloader and streaming engine designed specifically for Android.
Download torrents directly to your local storage or stream growing video files on-the-fly using your favorite external media players.
Core Features:
- Direct Local Storage: Single-contract download directly to local public storage (
Downloads/Webtor) for straightforward file management. - In-Progress Video Streaming: Stream growing video files directly to external players such as VLC, Nova Video Player, MPV, or Just Player without waiting for downloads to finish.
- Selective File Downloading: Choose specific files to prioritize or download in multi-file swarms.
- Bitfield Piece Visualizer: Interactive real-time visualizer showing piece distribution and swarm availability.
- Optimized Resource & Battery Usage: Adaptive polling back-off and a native Rust engine with bounded preparation storage.
- Modern Material 3 Interface: Intuitive UI with dynamic colors, dark theme support, and animated video preview cards.
- Direct Play: Stream a video from RAM without saving the whole file. Only each video's start and end are kept (up to 1 GB) so episodes reopen fast.
- Continue Watching and Play Next: Resume where you left off and move on to the next episode, with its start fetched in advance.
- Fast Seeking: A seek fetches the new play position first and moves late blocks to faster peers. For MP4 and MKV files, nearby keyframes are fetched ahead.
- Peer Map: Shows peer countries using an offline database bundled with the app (DB-IP Lite, CC BY 4.0). No lookup requests are made.
Privacy & Freedom:
- 100% Free and Open Source Software (MIT License; the engine is MPL-2.0).
- No advertising trackers, analytics, or telemetry.
- Zero advertisements.
- Direct peer-to-peer swarm connectivity (DHT, UDP trackers, TCP, uTP, WebSockets, and WebRTC).
Network connections:
- When the app starts, the engine automatically refreshes a cached public tracker list from https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ngosang/trackerslist/master/trackers_best.txt. Successful refreshes are scheduled once per day; failed requests may be retried. This request downloads a shared list and does not send torrent hashes or user-supplied tracker URLs.
- Up to 24 additional public BitTorrent trackers are automatically added to each non-private torrent to help discover peers. Cached and built-in fallback trackers are used when the list is unavailable. Private torrents are excluded. Torrent announces share your IP address and torrent info hash with the trackers contacted.
- WebRTC peer connections use STUN servers operated by Google, Twilio, and Cloudflare to discover a public network address for connectivity. These providers can see the source IP address of STUN requests.
- Seeding is on by default: after a download completes, its verified pieces are uploaded to other peers until a share ratio of 1.0 or 60 minutes of seeding, at up to 256 KiB/s and only on Wi-Fi. Seeding pauses during playback. Turn it off or change the limits in Settings, Seeding.
- The app does not provide settings to disable public tracker-list refresh, extra public trackers, or WebRTC. This build supports arm64-v8a devices.
