Vines Android

What is Vines Android and what is it for?

Vines Android is the Android version of Vines, a group conversation app that Lightning Rod Labs builds for The Weave, a peer-to-peer collaboration environment where groups assemble the tools they need. It gives a group a shared place for threaded discussion, held by the group's own members rather than by a central service.

Vines is described in its own repository as "a conversation capacity for groups in The Weave", the peer-to-peer collaboration environment built by Lightning Rod Labs, where groups assemble the tools they need for working together. This repository, Vines Android, holds the Android version of that app; its README says the app was assembled with a Holochain scaffolding tool and p2pshipyard, and it is published in the same organisation as the main Vines code.

As a conversation tool, Vines is meant to give a group a place to talk that the group itself holds. The maintainer's background note contrasts it with channel-based chat such as Discord or Slack, where the meaning of a channel lives in its name and in how the community uses it, and describes the limits of that model; Vines is instead one capacity a group can add inside its shared space, so its discussions sit alongside the other tools that group uses.

Inside a group space in The Weave, Vines is listed among the available tools as the one for group conversations and messaging, alongside tools such as Notebooks for collaborative notes or Presence for video calls, with each group's data described as hosted on the members' own computers rather than a central service. To learn more, start with the repository README, which documents the developer path for running and packaging the app; the panel on this page carries the dated build and activity facts.

From 3 public sources, checked 23 September 2026.