Primal
Primal's Android app for Nostr
| AppID: | net.primal.android |
| Author: | PrimalHQ |
| License: | MIT |
| Donation: | |
| InRepoSince: | 2023-07-14 |
| LastRepoUpdate: | 2026-01-05 |
| LastAppUpdate: | 2025-12-31 |
| LastVersion: | 2.6.18 |
| Categories: | Social Network, Internet, Messaging |
| APK source: | Github |
| Google Play: | Check if it's there |
Primal is a Nostr client featuring easy onboarding, fast & snappy UI, ability to explore Nostr, and create & manage custom feeds.
While you can download the APKs here directly, you should preferably use an F-Droid client so the app stays up-to-date on your device. Some clients have this repo enabled by default, e.g. Neo Store, Droid-ify, or, of course, the IzzyOnDroid client by Sunil. With others (like the official client) you'll have to add this repo manually (see the hint on top of the package list for how to do that).
Packages
Version 2.6.18 (2026-01-05) 
Android Versions:
- Target: 15.0
- MinVer: 8.0
- ABIs: arm64-v8a, armeabi, armeabi-v7a, mips, mips64, x86, x86_64
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App Configuration & Special Access
Sensitive Application Flags:
usesCleartextTraffic: needed because there are many images in notes which are using http links.
:
- none
Permissions:
- ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE
- CAMERA (needed for the integrated QR-Code scanner)
- FOREGROUND_SERVICE
- android.permission.FOREGROUND_SERVICE_MEDIA_PLAYBACK
- FOREGROUND_SERVICE_SPECIAL_USE
- INTERNET
- POST_NOTIFICATIONS
- READ_CLIPBOARD
- READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE (unused but implicitly granted by Android whenever WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE is present)
- USE_BIOMETRIC
- USE_FINGERPRINT
- WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE (needed for the "save image to device" feature)
- DYNAMIC_RECEIVER_NOT_EXPORTED_PERMISSION
Features:
- None
Malware-Check:Passed
101 Libraries detected:
Libraries:
- Android Support v4 (Development Framework)
The Android Support Library is not actually a single library, but rather a collection of libraries that can roughly be divided into two groups: compatibility and component libraries. For details, please see Understanding the Android Support Library.
- AndroidX Activity (Utility)
provides the base Activity subclass and the relevant hooks to build a composable structure on top.
- Android Jetpack Annotations (Utility)
library that contains the annotations for Android Jetpack.
- Arch (Utility)
helper for other arch dependencies, including JUnit test rules that can be used with LiveData.
- AppCompat (Utility)
support newer Android features on older Android versions.
- Biometric (Utility)
authenticate with biometrics or device credentials, and perform cryptographic operations.
- CameraX (Utility)
an addition to Android Jetpack that makes it easier to add camera capabilities.
- Android Support Library collections (Utility)
standalone efficient collections.
- Jetpack Compose (Development Framework)
a framework to define UIs programmatically with composable functions that describe its shape and data dependencies.
- Concurrent (Utility)
AndroidX library to help move tasks off the main thread with coroutines and take advantage of ListenableFuture.
- Constraint Layout Library (Utility)
library to reduce the number of nested views needed.
- Androidx Core (Utility)
a static library that you can add to your Android application in order to use APIs that are either not available for older platform versions or utility APIs that aren't a part of the framework APIs.
- Android Support Library Custom View (UI Component)
a module to implement custom views. Part of the Android Support Library.
- DataStore (Development Aid)
stores data asynchronously, consistently, and transactionally, overcoming some of the drawbacks of SharedPreferences.
- Android Emoji2 Compat (UI Component)
core library to enable emoji compatibility in Kitkat and newer devices to avoid the empty emoji characters.
- Exifinterface (Utility)
a library to read and write image file EXIF tags.
- AndroidX Fragment (UI Component)
AndroidX library to encapsulate part of the user interface or behavior into reusable components.
- Androidx Graphics (Utility)
leverages graphics facilities across multiple Android platform releases.
- Android Lifecycle WorkManager Hilt Extension (Development Aid)
extends the functionality of Dagger Hilt to enable dependency injection of certain classes from the androidx libraries.
- Interpolator (UI Component)
AndroidX library to use animation interpolators on older platforms.
- Lifecycle (Utility)
perform actions in response to a change in the lifecycle status of another component, such as activities and fragments.
- Loader (Utility)
library to load data for your UI that survives configuration changes.
- AndroidX Media (Utility)
share media contents and controls with other apps.
- AndroidX Media3 (Utility)
share media contents and controls with other apps.
- Navigation (Utility)
a framework for navigating between 'destinations' within an Android application that provides a consistent API whether destinations are implemented as Fragments, Activities, or other components.
- Androidx Navigation Event (UI Component)
provides APIs to easily intercept platform navigation events, including swipes and clicks, to provide a consistent API surface for handling these events.
- Paging (UI Component)
AndroidX library to make it easier to load data gradually and gracefully within an app's RecyclerView.
- ProfileInstaller (Utility)
AndroidX library that enables libraries to prepopulate ahead of time compilation traces to be read by ART.
- Room (Utility)
a persistence library that provides an abstraction layer over SQLite to allow for more robust database access while harnessing the full power of SQLite.
- Recyclerview (Utility)
display large sets of data in your UI while minimizing memory usage.
- Android Activity Saved State (Utility)
provides the base Activity subclass and the relevant hooks to build a composable structure on top.
- AndroidX Security (Utility)
AndroidX library to safely manage keys and encrypt files and sharedpreferences.
- Sqlite (Utility)
library that contains abstract interfaces along with basic implementations which can be used to build your own libraries that access SQLite.
- Startup (Utility)
AndroidX library to implement a straightforward, performant way to initialize components at app startup.
- Tracing (Utility)
AndroidX library to write trace events to the system trace buffer.
- Transition (UI Component)
animates motion in the UI with starting and ending layouts.
- Vectordrawable (UI Component)
AndroidX library to render vector graphics.
- Android Jetpack VersionedParcelable (Utility)
Provides a stable but relatively compact binary serialization format that can be passed across processes or persisted safely.
- Jetpack WindowManager Library (Utility)
enables application developers to support new device form factors and multi-window environments. The library provides a common API surface for API versions 14 and later. Especially provides additional functionality on foldable devices.
- Kermit (Utility)
a Kotlin Multiplatform centralized logging utility.
- Coil (Utility)
an image loading library for Android backed by Kotlin Coroutines.
- coil (Utility)
Coroutine Image Loader. An image loading library for Android backed by Kotlin Coroutines.
- Lottie for Android (UI Component)
Render After Effects animations natively.
- svg android (Utility)
SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) library for Android.
- FasterXML Jackson (Utility)
a fast and compliant streaming JSON parser/writer with a StAX-like API and support for marshalling/unmarshalling POJOs via annotations.
- Сustom QR generator (Utility)
library for creating QR-codes with logo, custom pixel/eyes shapes, background image.
- ZoomImage (Utility)
library to zoom images via gestures, dragging etc.
- Accompanist (Utility)
a collection of extension libraries for Jetpack Compose.
- Google Core Libraries for Java 6+ (Utility)
a set of core libraries that includes new collection types (such as multimap and multiset), immutable collections, a graph library, functional types, an in-memory cache, and APIs/utilities for concurrency, I/O, hashing, primitives, reflection, string processing, and much more.
- Tink (Utility)
a multi-language, cross-platform library that provides cryptographic APIs that are secure, easy to use correctly, and hard(er) to misuse.
- Error Prone (Utility)
a static analysis tool for Java that catches common programming mistakes at compile-time.
- Google Gson (Utility)
A Java serialization/deserialization library to convert Java Objects into JSON and back.
- J2ObjC (Utility)
Java to Objective-C Translator and Runtime.
- Google Protocol Buffers (Utility)
library that deals with Protocol Buffers (a.k.a., protobuf) – Google's language-neutral, platform-neutral, extensible mechanism for serializing structured data.
- ZXing ('Zebra Crossing') (Utility)
ZXing („zebra crossing“) is an open-source, multi-format 1D/2D barcode image processing library.
- Lazysodium for Java (Utility)
a Java implementation of the Libsodium crypto library. For the lazy dev.
- Kotlin Coroutine Adapter (Utility)
a Retrofit 2 CallAdapter.Factory for Kotlin coroutine's Deferred.
- Url Detector (Utility)
library to detect and normalize URLs in text.
- OkHttp (Utility)
OkHttp is an HTTP+HTTP/2 client for Android and Java applications.
- JNA (Utility)
Java Native Access provides Java programs easy access to native shared libraries without writing anything but Java code no JNI or native code is required.
- Dagger (Utility)
A fast dependency injector for Android and Java.
- Ktorfit (Utility)
a HTTP client generator / KSP plugin for Kotlin Multiplatform (Android, iOS, Js, Jvm, Native, WasmJs)) using KSP and Ktor clients inspired by Retrofit.
- bitcoin-lib (Utility)
simple scala library which implements most of the bitcoin protocol.
- Secp256k1 for Kotlin/Multiplatform (Utility)
Kotlin Multi Platform bindings for Bitcoin secp256k1 library.
- Napier (Utility)
a logger library for Kotlin Multiplatform.
- Ktor (Development Framework)
framework for quickly creating connected applications in Kotlin with minimal effort.
- Markwon (Utility)
Markdown library.
- JavaX Annotation API (Utility)
common annotations for the JavaTM Platform API.
- JavaX Dependency Injection (Utility)
specifies a means for obtaining objects in such a way as to maximize reusability, testability and maintainability compared to traditional approaches such as constructors, factories, and service locators (e.g., JNDI). This process, known as dependency injection, is beneficial to most nontrivial applications.
- KorGE (Game Engine)
KorGE Game Engine. Multiplatform Kotlin Game Engine & Korlibs.
- Kotlin (Utility)
The Kotlin Programming Language
- Kotlin Android Extensions Runtime (Utility)
allows to obtain the same experience as with some of these libraries, without having to add any extra code or shipping any additional runtime.
- AtomicFU (Utility)
the idiomatic way to use atomic operations in Kotlin.
- Immutable Collections Library for Kotlin (Utility)
immutable collection interfaces and implementation prototypes for Kotlin.
- kotlinx.coroutines (Utility)
library support for Kotlin coroutines.
- kotlinx-datetime (Utility)
a multiplatform Kotlin library for working with date and time.
- kotlinx-io (Utility)
a multiplatform Kotlin library providing basic IO primitives.
- Kotlin serialization (Utility)
Kotlin cross-platform / multi-format serialization.
- Telephoto (UI Component)
building blocks for designing media experiences in Compose UI.
- ZBar (Utility)
software suite for reading bar codes from various sources, such as video streams, image files and raw intensity sensors.
- SQLCipher for Android (Utility)
provides an interface to SQLCipher databases on the Android platform.
- OkHttp okio Framework (Utility)
A modern I/O API for Java to make it much easier to access, store, and process your data.
- Apache Commons (Development Framework)
an Apache project focused on all aspects of reusable Java components.
- bitcoinj (Utility)
a Java implementation of the Bitcoin protocol, which allows it to maintain a wallet and send/receive transactions without needing a local copy of Bitcoin Core.
- Bouncy Castle (Utility)
a collection of APIs used in cryptography. Also see Wikipedia.
- Checker Framework (Utility)
pluggable type-checking to detect and prevent errors in their Java programs.
- Webkit Boundary Interfaces (Utility)
Chromium WebView helpers
- commonmark-java (Utility)
Java implementation of CommonMark, a specification of the Markdown format.
- rfc3986 (Utility)
advanced URI management capabilities beyond those found in Java's standard java.net.URI class.
- jUnit Java Unit Test (Utility)
simple framework to write repeatable tests.
- Simple Logging Facade for Java (Utility)
abstraction for various logging frameworks (e.g. java.util.logging, logback, log4j) allowing to plug in the desired logging framework at deployment time.
- Retrofit (Utility)
Type-safe HTTP client for Android and Java by Square, Inc.
- JLatexMath Android (Utility)
Java API to render LaTeX.
- Reorderable (Utility)
reorder items in Lists and Grids in Jetpack Compose and Compose Multiplatform with drag and drop.
- Timber (Utility)
logger with a small, extensible API which provides utility on top of Android's normal Log class.
- Kotlin MP BigNum library (Utility)
- Flippable (UI Component)
- cryptography-kotlin (Utility)
- lightning-kmp (Utility)
- FileType (Utility)
- Placeholder for Jetpack Compose (UI Component)
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