Update: somehow I'm getting sbot on android to talk to sbot on my laptop, but it's not reliable. I digged into the debugger and noticed that createLogStream wasn't sending out data from leveldb as it should, which led me to discover that...
asyncstorage-down@3.1.1 is depending on an old abstract-leveldown
(v0.12.3) while that one has been updated to 2.6.1. So I'm going to poke around with asyncstorage-down and see if I can get it compatible with the latest abstract-leveldown.