Steam Link SDK

[slouken]

We have released an SDK for native application development!
https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steamlink-sdk

Hardware

The Steam Link hardware is a single core ARMv7 processor using the hard-float ABI,
running at 1 GHz, with neon instruction support. It has approximately 256 MB of available
RAM and 500 MB of usable flash storage.

Software

The Steam Link software is custom Linux firmware based on kernel 3.8 and glibc 2.19.

The Steam Link SDK has support for the following major APIs:

• OpenGL ES 2.0
  
• Qt 5.4
  
• SDL 2.0

The SDL game controller API is recommended for Steam Controller support on the Steam Link.

Contents

• examples - very simple example applications to demonstrate how to build applications using the SDK
  
• external - source code to 3rd party components of the Steam Link, each directory has a "build_soc.sh" script to rebuild the component.
  
• kernel -Steam Link linux kernel source code
  
• rootfs - Steam Link root filesystem
  
• toolchain - GCC toolchain for Steam Link
  
• setenv.sh - Script to configure build environment

[Davidoff]

This is great news. Hoping for some cool stuff in the future!

[Thegreen16]

quick, someone make a kodi app

[fish]

retroarch please :) but i fear the hardware is a bit to low for it.
http://skuller.net/q2pro/ would be also great :)

[mcd1992]

Kodi might be possible as the Link supports OpenGL ES 2.0.

I might look into that if no-one else beats me to it.

[Felblob]

Awesome, does this mean we can get some headset / microphone support?

[dirk.dierickx]

That's really cool! Been waiting for it since the mention of a SDK in one of the link updates.
Will there be a steam-link-apps section in the steam store at some point? or are users supposed to always use the usb method to install apps? just saying it would be great to have link apps available in one place.

[r1k1]

and you are? lol

[Shark]

By just running make, I could compile 2 out of the 4 examples on my desktop. Sneaky, Valve is tricking people into building applications which can be compiled for anything which runs Linux.

[firmak]

So will there be something like an appstore in the future?

[ρм // Mech]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von slouken:

We have released an SDK for native application development!
https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steamlink-sdk

Thanks slouken and Valve!

Is there any chance you could also release the protocol behind the in-home streaming and also the source behind your binary? It would be really nice to port this to my other micro PCs.

Cheers

[blackout24]

Sam is the man!

[BROMAN]

Great, lets get to working lads!

[trevorade]

Is there an estimated launch timeframe for native Steam Link app availability and distribution through Steam? I'd be interested in what types of apps get made :) PLX? Netflix? Emulators?

[danopkt]

Very cool! I had no idea this was in the works, so it's a welcome surprise :)

[slouken]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Bubble Raptor:

Is there an estimated launch timeframe for native Steam Link app availability and distribution through Steam? I'd be interested in what types of apps get made :) PLX? Netflix? Emulators?

We're waiting to see what kind of interest there is in native apps on the Steam Link.