diff --git a/android/app/build.gradle.kts b/android/app/build.gradle.kts
index 06a863e3..ed07c04e 100644
--- a/android/app/build.gradle.kts
+++ b/android/app/build.gradle.kts
@@ -119,6 +119,7 @@ dependencies {
     implementation(libs.androidx.core.ktx)
     implementation(libs.androidx.lifecycle.runtime.compose)
     implementation(libs.androidx.lifecycle.viewmodel.compose)
+    implementation(libs.androidx.lifecycle.process)
     implementation(libs.androidx.activity.compose)
     implementation(libs.androidx.nav.compose)
     implementation(libs.androidx.hilt.nav.compose)
diff --git a/android/app/src/main/java/com/fabledsword/minstrel/MinstrelApplication.kt b/android/app/src/main/java/com/fabledsword/minstrel/MinstrelApplication.kt
index e78340b3..8084b845 100644
--- a/android/app/src/main/java/com/fabledsword/minstrel/MinstrelApplication.kt
+++ b/android/app/src/main/java/com/fabledsword/minstrel/MinstrelApplication.kt
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ import coil3.network.okhttp.OkHttpNetworkFetcherFactory
 import com.fabledsword.minstrel.cache.mutations.MutationReplayer
 import com.fabledsword.minstrel.cache.sync.SyncController
 import com.fabledsword.minstrel.di.ApplicationScope
+import com.fabledsword.minstrel.player.PlayEventsReporter
 import com.fabledsword.minstrel.player.ResumeController
 import dagger.hilt.android.HiltAndroidApp
 import kotlinx.coroutines.CoroutineScope
@@ -58,6 +59,15 @@ class MinstrelApplication :
      */
     @Suppress("unused") @Inject lateinit var mutationReplayer: MutationReplayer
 
+    /**
+     * Same construct-the-singleton trick — PlayEventsReporter's init
+     * block subscribes to PlayerController.uiState and reports the
+     * play-event lifecycle (started/ended/skipped/offline) to the
+     * server. Without this @Inject the singleton would never
+     * instantiate and Android plays would never reach the server.
+     */
+    @Suppress("unused") @Inject lateinit var playEventsReporter: PlayEventsReporter
+
     @Inject @ApplicationScope lateinit var appScope: CoroutineScope
 
     override fun onCreate() {
diff --git a/android/app/src/main/java/com/fabledsword/minstrel/player/PlayEventsReporter.kt b/android/app/src/main/java/com/fabledsword/minstrel/player/PlayEventsReporter.kt
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..f2f076fc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/android/app/src/main/java/com/fabledsword/minstrel/player/PlayEventsReporter.kt
@@ -0,0 +1,247 @@
+package com.fabledsword.minstrel.player
+
+import androidx.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleObserver
+import androidx.lifecycle.LifecycleOwner
+import androidx.lifecycle.ProcessLifecycleOwner
+import com.fabledsword.minstrel.api.endpoints.EventsApi
+import com.fabledsword.minstrel.auth.AuthStore
+import com.fabledsword.minstrel.cache.mutations.MutationQueue
+import com.fabledsword.minstrel.cache.mutations.PlayOfflinePayload
+import com.fabledsword.minstrel.di.ApplicationScope
+import com.fabledsword.minstrel.models.wire.PlayEndedRequest
+import com.fabledsword.minstrel.models.wire.PlaySkippedRequest
+import com.fabledsword.minstrel.models.wire.PlayStartedRequest
+import kotlinx.coroutines.CoroutineScope
+import kotlinx.coroutines.launch
+import kotlinx.datetime.Clock
+import kotlinx.datetime.Instant
+import retrofit2.Retrofit
+import retrofit2.create
+import java.util.UUID
+import javax.inject.Inject
+import javax.inject.Singleton
+
+private const val COMPLETION_TOLERANCE_MS = 3_000L
+
+/**
+ * Mobile play-event lifecycle reporter. Closes the parity gap where
+ * Android-played tracks never reached the server — without this,
+ * History stayed empty for mobile listening, recommendation scoring
+ * was biased toward web/desktop, ListenBrainz scrobbles never fired,
+ * and system-playlist rotation didn't advance on mobile activity.
+ *
+ * State machine over (current track id, playing) observed against
+ * [PlayerController.uiState]. Mirrors Flutter's
+ * `play_events_reporter.dart`. The skip-vs-ended classification uses
+ * a 3-second tolerance to avoid marking naturally-finished in-queue
+ * tracks as skipped (which would dilute the recommendation
+ * skip-ratio).
+ *
+ * Live calls go through [EventsApi]; failures fall through to the
+ * offline [MutationQueue] so a flaky connection never loses a play.
+ * App-background / detached states close the current play durably
+ * via the offline queue (a fire-and-forget POST during teardown is
+ * unreliable; the queue survives a process kill).
+ */
+@Singleton
+class PlayEventsReporter @Inject constructor(
+    private val playerController: PlayerController,
+    private val authStore: AuthStore,
+    private val mutationQueue: MutationQueue,
+    @ApplicationScope private val scope: CoroutineScope,
+    retrofit: Retrofit,
+) : DefaultLifecycleObserver {
+
+    private val api: EventsApi = retrofit.create()
+
+    private var curTrackId: String? = null
+    private var curStartedAt: Instant? = null
+    private var curSource: String? = null
+    private var curLastPositionMs: Long = 0
+    private var curDurationMs: Long = 0
+    private var curReachedEnd: Boolean = false
+
+    // Server play_event_id when the live play_started succeeded;
+    // null if start failed/offline — then the close is captured into
+    // the offline mutation queue instead of a live ended/skipped.
+    private var openPlayEventId: String? = null
+
+    private var prevTrackId: String? = null
+
+    init {
+        ProcessLifecycleOwner.get().lifecycle.addObserver(this)
+        scope.launch {
+            playerController.uiState.collect { state ->
+                evaluate(
+                    trackId = state.currentTrack?.id,
+                    playing = state.isPlaying,
+                    positionMs = state.positionMs,
+                    durationMs = state.durationMs,
+                    source = state.currentSource,
+                )
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    private fun evaluate(
+        trackId: String?,
+        playing: Boolean,
+        positionMs: Long,
+        durationMs: Long,
+        source: String?,
+    ) {
+        // Track-change → close the prior tracked play.
+        if (trackId != prevTrackId && curTrackId != null) {
+            closeCurrent(viaOffline = false)
+        }
+
+        // Entered playing for a new track → begin tracking it.
+        if (trackId != null && playing && curTrackId != trackId) {
+            beginTrack(trackId = trackId, source = source, durationMs = durationMs)
+        }
+
+        // Advance the tracked play's progress. The gate `trackId ==
+        // curTrackId` keeps a finishing track's last-known position
+        // intact across the moment the listener fires for a track
+        // change (where currentTrack is briefly the new one).
+        if (curTrackId != null && trackId == curTrackId) {
+            curLastPositionMs = positionMs
+            if (durationMs > 0) {
+                curDurationMs = durationMs
+                if (positionMs >= curDurationMs - COMPLETION_TOLERANCE_MS) {
+                    curReachedEnd = true
+                }
+            }
+        }
+
+        prevTrackId = trackId
+    }
+
+    private fun beginTrack(trackId: String, source: String?, durationMs: Long) {
+        curTrackId = trackId
+        curStartedAt = Clock.System.now()
+        curSource = source
+        curLastPositionMs = 0
+        curDurationMs = durationMs
+        curReachedEnd = false
+        openPlayEventId = null
+        startLive(trackId = trackId, source = source)
+    }
+
+    private fun startLive(trackId: String, source: String?) {
+        val cid = resolveClientId() ?: return
+        scope.launch {
+            try {
+                val response = api.playStarted(
+                    PlayStartedRequest(
+                        trackId = trackId,
+                        clientId = cid,
+                        source = source.takeIf { !it.isNullOrEmpty() },
+                    ),
+                )
+                if (curTrackId == trackId) {
+                    openPlayEventId = response.playEventId
+                }
+            } catch (
+                @Suppress("TooGenericExceptionCaught", "SwallowedException") e: Throwable,
+            ) {
+                // Offline / flaky — openPlayEventId stays null; close
+                // path will enqueue the completed play for replay.
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    private fun closeCurrent(viaOffline: Boolean) {
+        val trackId = curTrackId
+        val startedAt = curStartedAt
+        if (trackId == null || startedAt == null) {
+            resetCurrent()
+            return
+        }
+        val reached = curReachedEnd
+        val lastPos = curLastPositionMs
+        val durationMs = if (reached && curDurationMs > 0) curDurationMs else lastPos
+        val source = curSource
+        val id = openPlayEventId
+
+        if (!viaOffline && id != null) {
+            scope.launch {
+                try {
+                    if (reached) {
+                        api.playEnded(
+                            PlayEndedRequest(
+                                playEventId = id,
+                                durationPlayedMs = durationMs,
+                            ),
+                        )
+                    } else {
+                        api.playSkipped(
+                            PlaySkippedRequest(
+                                playEventId = id,
+                                positionMs = lastPos,
+                            ),
+                        )
+                    }
+                } catch (
+                    @Suppress("TooGenericExceptionCaught", "SwallowedException") e: Throwable,
+                ) {
+                    enqueueOffline(trackId, startedAt, source, durationMs)
+                }
+            }
+        } else {
+            enqueueOffline(trackId, startedAt, source, durationMs)
+        }
+        resetCurrent()
+    }
+
+    private fun resetCurrent() {
+        curTrackId = null
+        curStartedAt = null
+        curSource = null
+        curLastPositionMs = 0
+        curDurationMs = 0
+        curReachedEnd = false
+        openPlayEventId = null
+    }
+
+    private fun enqueueOffline(
+        trackId: String,
+        startedAt: Instant,
+        source: String?,
+        durationPlayedMs: Long,
+    ) {
+        val cid = resolveClientId() ?: return
+        scope.launch {
+            mutationQueue.enqueuePlayOffline(
+                PlayOfflinePayload(
+                    trackId = trackId,
+                    clientId = cid,
+                    atIso = startedAt.toString(),
+                    durationPlayedMs = durationPlayedMs,
+                    source = source.takeIf { !it.isNullOrEmpty() },
+                ),
+            )
+        }
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Returns the persisted client id, generating + persisting one on
+     * first read. The setter is fire-and-forget on the app scope so
+     * this stays synchronous; the in-memory StateFlow update is
+     * immediate so the next caller observes the new value.
+     */
+    private fun resolveClientId(): String? {
+        authStore.clientId.value?.let { return it }
+        val fresh = UUID.randomUUID().toString()
+        authStore.setClientId(fresh)
+        return fresh
+    }
+
+    // ── Lifecycle: durable-close on app background / detach ────────
+
+    override fun onStop(owner: LifecycleOwner) {
+        if (curTrackId != null) {
+            closeCurrent(viaOffline = true)
+        }
+    }
+}
diff --git a/android/gradle/libs.versions.toml b/android/gradle/libs.versions.toml
index 83632dcc..d19e6fdd 100644
--- a/android/gradle/libs.versions.toml
+++ b/android/gradle/libs.versions.toml
@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@ detekt = "2.0.0-alpha.3"
 androidx-core-ktx = { module = "androidx.core:core-ktx", version = "1.13.1" }
 androidx-lifecycle-viewmodel-compose = { module = "androidx.lifecycle:lifecycle-viewmodel-compose", version.ref = "lifecycle" }
 androidx-lifecycle-runtime-compose = { module = "androidx.lifecycle:lifecycle-runtime-compose", version.ref = "lifecycle" }
+androidx-lifecycle-process = { module = "androidx.lifecycle:lifecycle-process", version.ref = "lifecycle" }
 androidx-activity-compose = { module = "androidx.activity:activity-compose", version = "1.9.3" }
 androidx-nav-compose = { module = "androidx.navigation:navigation-compose", version.ref = "nav-compose" }
 androidx-hilt-nav-compose = { module = "androidx.hilt:hilt-navigation-compose", version.ref = "hilt-androidx" }