dInfinity

A dice roller for Android where the roll is real: every throw is a rigid-body physics simulation of the actual dice shapes, rendered in 3D. Shake the phone like you would shake a fistful of dice, and read the result off the faces that land up.

Why another dice app?

Most dice apps draw a random number and show a picture. dInfinity simulates the dice. The number you get is whatever face ends up on top after the dice tumble, collide, and settle in the tray — the same way it works on a table. That makes rolls feel honest, lets you watch the d20 wobble before it stops, and means a die is defined by its shape, not by a lookup table.

Passing one phone around the table beats passing a bag of dice around and hunting for the d12 that rolled under the couch.

The design is clickable

▶ design/dInfinity.dc.html — every v1 screen, live in the browser. Clone the repository and open the file; GitHub shows you its source, not the running prototype, and it renders from this folder with no account or sign-in of any kind.

It is not a picture of the app: the notation parser, the table capacity rule and the exact outcome graph all run, following the specification in docs/. Tap dice to build a formula, tap the tray to roll, type 500d6 to see it refused, 2d20kh1 + 6 for advantage. Physics is faked with a random face and a tumble; everything else is real.


design/dInfinity.dc.html	The canvas: every screen and every variant on one board — start here
design/dInfinityPhone.dc.html	The phone prototype on its own, without the board around it
design/README.md	What each file is, and what the prototype needs to run

Features

Physics-based rolls — dice are convex rigid bodies with correct mass distribution; results come from which face lands up, not from random().
3D rendering of the tray and dice, with optional haptics and sound.
Shake to roll — accelerometer and gyroscope drive the throw.
Power-saving mode — same physics, no rendering; just the result.
Tabletop notation — roll 3d6 + 1d20 - 4, 2d10kh1, d%, and so on.
Does the math — the total, the modifiers and the per-die breakdown are shown the moment the dice stop. No counting pips in the middle of a fight.
Saved rolls — name a formula, give it an icon (“Fireball”, “Sneak Attack”), roll it with one tap. Group them per game, per character, however you like; export and import them as files or from a URL.
Outcome graph — see the exact probability distribution before you roll, for a typed formula or for a handful of dice picked by tapping, with mean and standard deviation.
Standard dice — d2, d4, d6, d8, d10, d12, d18, d20, d100 (as two d10s; d% is an alias for d100).
Extensible dice sets — dice are defined in plain text files with optional face textures; install sets from GitHub, GitLab, Codeberg or any https link to an archive.
Exchangeable tables — swap the look of the dice tray (felt, wood, glass, your own photo) the same way you would swap a wallpaper. The tray’s shape never changes: it is the phone’s screen, walls at the edges.
Safe imports — a broken or malicious dice set can fail to load, but it cannot crash the app or affect other sets.
Your accent — the one colour the interface spends is yours to choose, from a palette checked for legibility on both the light and the dark ground.
Face designer — draw die faces with your finger and roll them.
Statistics — count of lowest/highest results per die, averages, streaks, per-formula history. Yes, we know a natural 20 is exactly as likely as a natural 7. It still matters.
No cocked dice, no invisible hand — dice that would land on top of each other are steered apart while they are still tumbling, never poked once they have stopped. A die that does end up cocked is re-thrown where you can see it, the way you would at a real table.
No 500d6 — a roll is refused when the dice would not fit on the table with room to tumble. Dice shrink to make room up to a point; past that the simulation would only produce nonsense, so the app says no.

Documentation

docs/ is the written specification; the prototype is the visual one. Each document below links to the screens that realise it.

Document	Contents
docs/STATUS.md	Where the project stands right now: phase, in progress, blocked, pending decisions
docs/TODO.md	Open tasks by milestone and open questions
docs/build-setup.md	Devcontainer, building, signing keys, running tests, connecting a phone over WiFi
docs/architecture.md	Module layout, tech stack, data flow, key decisions
docs/physics-and-rendering.md	Simulation, shake input, settling and face detection, stacking avoidance, power-saving mode
docs/dice-notation.md	Roll formula grammar, evaluation rules, saved rolls
docs/dice-sets.md	Dice set file format, shapes, textures, installing from git forges or archive URLs, validation and sandboxing
docs/tables.md	Table (tray) geometry, capacity limits, exchangeable table looks
docs/probability.md	How the outcome graph is computed
docs/face-designer.md	Finger-drawn face textures
docs/statistics.md	What is tracked, how it is stored, privacy
docs/assets/README.md	The logo files, how they are generated from Archivo, and the font licence
design/README.md	The prototype: what each file is, how to open it offline, how to keep it in step with `docs/`

Status

Design phase. The documents in docs/ and the prototype in design/ are the specification the implementation will be built against. Nothing here is shipped yet. See docs/STATUS.md for the current state and docs/TODO.md for what is next.

Building

Everything happens in the devcontainer — it carries the JDK, the Android SDK, Gradle and the linters, and nothing is expected on the host but Docker. Open the repository in a devcontainer-aware editor, or:

docker build -t dinfinity-dev .devcontainer
docker run --rm -it -v "$PWD":/workspace -w /workspace dinfinity-dev \
  ./gradlew build test lint detekt ktlintCheck

Release and debug APKs land in app/build/outputs/named-apk/ as dInfinityApp-<version>.apk and dInfinityApp-<version>-debug.apk. The container also carries adb, so a phone attached over WiFi debugging runs the on-device tests without leaving it.

docs/build-setup.md has the details: signing keys, wireless debugging, static analysis, and what the container contains.

Contributing

The working agreements — branching, PRs, tests, releases, build naming, how the tracking files are kept tidy — are in .claude/CLAUDE.md. Read it before opening a PR.

Platform

Targets Android 17 (API 37); minSdk is 36 for now — see docs/TODO.md, “Open questions”
Reference device: Google Pixel 10a; that is where it is tested first
Kotlin, Jetpack Compose
3D rendering and physics run on-device; the app works fully offline. Network access is only used when you explicitly install a dice set, a table or a saved-roll collection from a URL.

Security

The app installs dice sets other people wrote, and that is the whole attack surface worth caring about. SECURITY.md sets out the threat model, the defences, and how to report a vulnerability privately.

License

GPL-2.0-or-later. See LICENSE.

Dice sets, tables and saved-roll collections you create with the app are yours; the app does not impose a license on them. Sets downloaded from the internet carry whatever license their author chose, shown in the set details.

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