Conference

The Conference screen lets you join a multi-person audio and video room over your Nettica network. Each participant has a full-screen page, and the controls float over the call so the video remains the focus.

Joining a Conference Room

Expand a VPN on the main screen by tapping its row. Peer devices that have conference rooms available show a paired icon — a video-camera next to a group-of-people silhouette — on the right side of their row. Tap that icon to enter the room. The room is identified by that peer's VPN IP address, so every device that taps the same peer's conference icon joins the same room.

When you enter the room, your camera and microphone initialize first, then the app connects to the room's signaling server. If the room cannot be reached an error dialog explains why and you are returned to the previous screen.

The screen stays on for the entire session; the app holds a wake lock so the display does not dim or go to sleep. The system status bar and navigation bar are hidden while you are in the room — tap the screen to temporarily reveal them.

Moving Between Participants

The room uses a vertical paged layout: page 0 is your own camera, and each additional page shows one remote participant. Swipe up or down to move between pages. The top bar shows the room name and the current participant count.

Tap on a participant to change focus to them.

The dots on the right edge of the screen are a page indicator: one dot per participant page. The filled (larger, brighter) dot is the page you are currently on. The dots fade out when the controls are hidden and reappear when you tap to show them.

Active-Speaker Auto-Switching

When Active speaker is enabled (default) in the More options menu, the conference automatically animates to the page of whichever participant is currently the loudest speaker. If you manually swipe to a different participant, auto-switching pauses for five seconds before it can switch away again, so the view does not jump immediately after you make a deliberate selection.

Participants Panel

A participants panel opens automatically when they enter the room and appears in the top-right corner of the screen. It lists every person in the room, including you, with their avatar, name, and status icons showing whether their microphone or camera is currently off.

Tap any name in the panel to jump directly to that participant's page. Use the × button in the participant panel header to close it. Tapping the screen to show controls brings the panel back.

While a video page is zoomed in, the panel becomes non-interactive so pan and zoom gestures are not accidentally intercepted. Close the zoom first to use the panel again.

Showing and Hiding Controls

Tap anywhere on the screen to show or hide the call controls. When visible, the controls hide automatically after a few seconds. The red hang-up button can be set to fade with the other controls or remain always visible (default)— see the Fade hang-up option in the More options menu.

Each participant's name and mute status are shown in a badge near the bottom of their video page. The badge fades with the controls when Fade hang-up is enabled.

Call Controls

• Mute / Unmute — toggle your microphone. The change is immediately signaled to all other participants, so your status icon in their participants panel updates in real time.
• Video off / on — disable or re-enable your camera. When off, other participants see your avatar instead of your video.
• Hang up (red button) — leave the conference and return to the previous screen. Other participants remain in the room.
• Share Screen — broadcast your screen to all participants instead of your camera. Screen shares use a contain layout so the full shared area remains visible. Tap Stop Sharing to return to your camera.
• More options (⋮) — open audio, video, bandwidth, and call behavior settings.
• Help (?) — open this help page. Rendering pauses while help is open and resumes when you close it.

Pinch to Zoom

Pinch to zoom in on the current participant's video, up to 5x, then drag to pan around the zoomed view. On a trackpad, use a pinch gesture to scale. While any page is zoomed in, vertical swiping between participants is disabled so your pan gesture is not misread as a page swipe. The participants panel also becomes non-interactive while zoomed. Pinch back out or double-tap to return to normal navigation.

Zoom state is reset automatically whenever you swipe to a different participant's page.

Screen Sharing

Use Share Screen to send your screen to all participants. On iOS, sharing uses ReplayKit and requires your confirmation. On Android and macOS, the system prompts for screen-capture permission. On Windows and Linux, the first available display is captured.

While sharing, other participants see your screen in a contained layout, ensuring the entire shared area fits within their view. Zoom works when sharing. Tap Stop Sharing to return to your camera feed.

Settings (More options menu)

• Speaker — route audio to the loudspeaker instead of the earpiece on supported mobile devices.
• Start muted — join future rooms with your microphone already muted.
• Start camera off — join future rooms with the camera disabled.
• Rear camera — use the rear-facing camera instead of the front camera.
• Mirror mode — horizontally flip your local camera preview on your own page.
• Low bandwidth — cap the outgoing video stream at 128 kbps and reduce resolution to 640×480 at 15 fps. Useful on slow or metered connections.
• Active speaker — automatically switch to the loudest participant's page. Manual swipes temporarily pause switching for five seconds.
• Fade hang-up — hide the red hang-up button along with the other controls when they auto-hide.
• Flip camera — switch between front and rear cameras. Not available while screen sharing.