Features

• Added Keep downloads running toggle, so Steam downloads can continue when Android sleeps. (@jmarti326, @xXJSONDeruloXx, #335)

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• Added Native Steam sleep with dynamic cloud save and wake movie support. (@xXJSONDeruloXx, #291)

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• Added Adreno 6xx support, including Adreno 650 (eg: Retroid Pocket 5). (@unbelievableflavour, @jmarti326, #320, #326)
• SD cards and external drives can now be used as full Steam libraries. (@maxjivi05, #388)
• Added per-game Windows components with automatic dependency recommendations for Steam and non Steam games. (@The412Banner, #287)

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• Added XNA, PhysX, Games for Windows Live, MSXML and other Windows components without needing to run their original installers. (@The412Banner, #347)
• Added optional Force SSBS for ARM64 Proton games on supported CPUs. (@The412Banner, #328)
• Added a detailed device report with SoC, GPU, CPU, Vulkan, memory and driver information. (@The412Banner, #295)
• Added App scale presets from 75% to 150%. (@xXJSONDeruloXx, #272)
• File Manager can now browse DroidDeck’s Linux filesystem directly. (@The412Banner, #392)
• Added a Language setting, with Steam automatically following the selected language. (@maxjivi05, #284)
• Added opt-in Debugging tools for automated game/session control, input, UI inspection and repeatable test scenarios. (@xXJSONDeruloXx, #406)

Improvements

• Steam and games now run on separate Xwayland servers, closer to SteamOS behavior. (@xXJSONDeruloXx, #344)
• DirectAudio is now the default on fresh installs, with major crackling and underrun improvements across both audio modes. (@maxjivi05, #338)
• Steam now preserves edits made to added-game shortcuts, including Target, Start In, name and launch options. (@maxjivi05, #393)
• Steam now uses the full session resolution on displays wider or larger than 1080p. (@xXJSONDeruloXx, #391)
• Improved Snapdragon and Adreno detection on devices with incomplete hardware information. (@The412Banner, #295)
• Improved layouts for small screens and longer translated text. (@xXJSONDeruloXx, @maxjivi05, #268, #284)
• File Manager and file pickers can now navigate upward from game folders, prefixes and remembered locations. (@The412Banner, #377)
• Expanded and polished Spanish, Japanese, Korean, Chinese, French and Russian translations. (@maxjivi05, @starwishHi, @zeedif, @Tak-attack, @kmnkv1, #284, #286, #234, #314, #324)
• Steam and Linux apps now use Android’s system fonts for Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Thai and other missing characters. (@maxjivi05, @0x1428571429, #374, #252)
• Sessions launched from Android frontends now return to that frontend when they close. (@xXJSONDeruloXx, #300)

Fixed

• Fixed MangoHud reporting roughly double the real battery power draw and incorrect remaining time. (Thanks Russ ❤️)(@xXJSONDeruloXx, #270)
• Fixed slow Steam installs on SD cards and external storage, including long Reserving space / Committing stages and installs failing to begin. (@maxjivi05, #388, #410)
• Fixed some games staying behind Steam’s black loading screen while already running. (@xXJSONDeruloXx, #401)
• Fixed a graphics-memory leak that could kill the session. (@The412Banner, @xXJSONDeruloXx, #275, #305)
• Fixed some added games starting in C:\windows instead of their own game folder. (@The412Banner, #343)
• Fixed Firefox and LibreWolf tabs crashing on affected Android 16 devices. (@The412Banner, #280)
• Fixed resolution presets changing the screen shape, and fixed 16:9 stretch in Steam Deck mode. (@xXJSONDeruloXx, @magarto, #337, #133)
• Fixed several Steam sleep and wake edge cases. (@xXJSONDeruloXx, #289)
• Fixed some new sessions starting with the wrong output size. (@xXJSONDeruloXx, #357)
• Fixed Windows component installation failures and improved controller navigation in the component picker. (@The412Banner, #347)
• Removed the old Force game windows fullscreen workaround now that games run on their own Xwayland server. (@xXJSONDeruloXx, #349)

New contributors

• @unbelievableflavour made their first contribution in #320.
• @Lightfallingonionroom made their first contribution in #232.
• @0x1428571429 made their first contribution in #252.
• @zeedif made their first contribution in #234.
• @Tak-attack made their first contribution in #314.
• @kmnkv1 made their first contribution in #324.

Disclaimer: ai used in the development of DroidDeck.

Download here: https://github.com/Droid-Deck/DroidDeck/releases/tag/0.3.2

Github: https://github.com/Droid-Deck/DroidDeck

Discord: https://discord.gg/JRGAvawjsm

With the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 generation coming in, I'm honestly more interested in the emulation side than the benchmark numbers.

The really interesting part is Qualcomm apparently starting to take PC game translation on Android more seriously, including work on official GPU drivers.

If Qualcomm actually delivers good driver support, do you think this could be the generation where Android PC emulation becomes significantly more consistent?

I'm wondering about the bigger picture:

Switch emulation

PS3 emulation

Winlator / PC games

Driver compatibility

Sustained performance and thermals

We've already seen Snapdragon chips become ridiculously capable for emulation. If the driver situation improves alongside the hardware, how far do you think these phones can realistically go?

What would be the first emulator/game you'd test on an 8 Elite Gen 6 device?

Forked from Playfield Portal and iterated on it until I got something I liked. This mostly came out of seeing a few XMB like launchers and non of them hitting just what I wanted and for some reason I got fixated on wanting to read books off my Konker and nothing else offered the option. So, I thought I would share it, I would love some feedback and if theres any interest I'll keep supporting it but for now its just a personal project I wanted to share with the world. Before anyone says it, yes, there is some AI involved with my documentation and some harder implementations but it wasnt vibed coded from start to finish. Let me know what you guys think.

Echo Launcher Repository

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Disclaimer: AI tools used in development

is sad that if wasn't by AI we wouldn't have drivers on mali gpus, which have a meaning from how kbase had potential for panfrost but the official devs never wanted to bring it for phones (android devices). i have a mali g72 and thanks to mali g52 panvk's dev, now i can see 141 vulkan extensions while the old system driver have 56 vk exts

also, i'm waiting for the performance fix in the driver to test plants vs zombies warfare, the game's fps is about 0.5 fps on system driver or panvk for now while in a adreno 610 runs at 30 fps