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Android · early access

Install the EyeSay Android app.

It is free, it is not finished, and Android will warn you about it. This page explains all three, and how to check the file you downloaded is the one we published.

The download

Releases appear here when they are ready.

Each one is listed with the Android version it needs, its SHA-256 fingerprint, and the fingerprint of the signing key, so you can confirm the file came from us.

No release is published yet

There is nothing to download from this page today. When a signed release is published it will appear here with its fingerprints; until then this page exists so you can read what installing it will involve before you decide.

The web app is available now and is not a preview of the Android app — it is the surface EyeSay currently ships. If you would rather not install software from outside the Play Store, you do not have to.

Open the web app insteadAsk about early access

What your phone will say

Android will warn you. Here is why.

We would rather explain the warning than talk you past it. It is a reasonable warning and you are right to stop and read it.

  1. 1

    Android will say it does not recognise the developer

    The exact wording differs by phone and by Android version. It may mention an unknown developer, an unsafe app, or Play Protect. You may be asked to allow installing from the browser you downloaded with.

  2. 2

    That warning is correct, and it is not about this app specifically

    Android shows it for anything installed from outside the Play Store, whoever made it. It is not a judgement about EyeSay; it is Android telling you it cannot vouch for the file because Google has not reviewed it.

  3. 3

    It appears because we have not completed a Play Store release yet

    A Play Store release is the thing that removes the warning, and it is what we are working towards. Until then an installable file is the only way to get the app onto a device, and the warning comes with it.

  4. 4

    You can check the file is the one we published

    Every release is listed here with its SHA-256 fingerprint and the fingerprint of the key it was signed with. If a file you downloaded does not match, do not install it, and tell us.

We will not ask you to turn off a security setting and leave it off. If a step is needed to install, it is listed with the release, it is the narrowest one that works, and it says how to put the setting back afterwards.

Before you install

What is not finished.

Early access is not a soft launch. These are the gaps we know about. Most are tracked on the product status page; the last one exists only because you are installing from outside the Play Store.

  • Configuration you change in the Console does not reach a native device yet.
  • There is no switch access, eye-gaze or dwell access in the native app.
  • The starter vocabulary is a seed, not a complete AAC vocabulary.
  • Updates will not arrive automatically. Outside the Play Store, you install each new version yourself.
See the full product status

If something goes wrong

A communicator's words, the photographs an adult adds and their utterance history stay on the device. Uninstalling the app removes the app; a device-level backup service configured by the device's owner may still hold a copy, which is a setting on the phone rather than something EyeSay controls.

If a download does not match the published fingerprint, if the app will not start, or if anything about an install looks wrong, please tell us before working around it. The security page explains how to report it.