The most seamless, elegant way to capture an ephemeral thought and get straight back to what you were doing. An idea strikes — mid-video, mid-scroll, whenever — you double-tap the back of your Pixel, speak or type it into a sleek box, tap Copy & return to go right back to your activity. Paste it wherever it actually belongs once you're ready. No app switch feels this light.
Voice is the star: any voice-to-text keyboard (Wispr Flow, Gboard voice typing, etc.) works here, because SlopStack is just a normal, focused Android text field — dictation engines already know how to type into that. SlopStack doesn't care what you paste into either; a terminal, a chat, a note, a task tracker, an email draft. It's a place to push your unrefined slop of a thought, and pop it back out the moment you need it. SlopStack also retains the one most recently copied drop in its private on-device storage, so it can be restored after Gboard's clipboard history expires; copying a newer drop replaces it.
The project is a single Android application module. Product intent, design
constraints, and durable rationale live in context/ (see
context/DECISIONS.md and context/MAP.md).
- Double-tap into SlopStack using the Quick Tap feature in Pixels or other shortcuts from OEMs like Moto, or from the Quick Settings Drop Slop tile
- Dictate or type your thought in the popup.
- Tap Copy & return to go straight back to what you were doing, with the text sitting on the clipboard.
- Paste it later, anywhere you want. If the clipboard expires before then, reopen SlopStack and tap Restore last copy to load its one retained drop back into the editor.
Install Android SDK Platform 37 (platforms;android-37.0) and build-tools 37.0.0,
and use JDK 21 (Gradle 9.5, AGP 9.3, and the Material 3 Expressive dependencies
require it; app bytecode still targets Java 17). From a machine with Gradle
available:
gradle :app:assembleDebug
gradle :app:installDebugA Gradle wrapper is checked in; ./gradlew works the same way once
local.properties points sdk.dir at an SDK containing Platform 37.
Add the resulting Drop Slop tile through Android's Quick Settings editor.
Two GitHub Actions workflows build APKs so you don't need a local Android toolchain on every machine:
- Every push to
mainbuilds an unsigned debug APK and attaches it as a workflow artifact (see the Actions tab → latest "Debug build" run → Artifacts). Good for pulling a fresh build onto another device without compiling anything yourself. - Pushing a version tag (
git tag v1.0.0 && git push origin v1.0.0) builds a signed release APK and publishes it to the repo's Releases page. That APK is signed with the project's dedicated release key, so it can be installed and later upgraded in place across devices (unlike the debug artifact, which reinstalls fresh each time). Download it directly from a phone browser and allow "install unknown apps" for that browser to sideload it.
The release signing key lives only as GitHub Actions secrets
(RELEASE_KEYSTORE_BASE64, RELEASE_STORE_PASSWORD, RELEASE_KEY_ALIAS,
RELEASE_KEY_PASSWORD) plus one local backup copy kept outside this repo. See
context/DECISIONS.md for the rationale.
npm install
npm run lint:md
npm run format:mdProject navigation and durable design context live in AGENTS.md
and context/.