Waydroid - Android gaming on Steam Deck

[retrogunner]

I did a quick google search and didn't see anything immediately.

Folks need to bring up in the SteamOS development forums about bringing Waydroid (an Andbox fork) to SteamOS.

Waydroid should allow SteamOS to play Android Games that are:
* not available on PC
* for any user that prefers a mobile version over the PC counterparts (some version are different)
* space saving size difference. I've Android versions of PC games that are a fraction (or substantially smaller) than my Steam copies.
* Having a built-in controller for Gaming with the touchscreen
* freeing space on my Android Phone and Tablets to play on a more performant device.

Oh, and of course, raising the demand (and unit sold) of the Steam Deck being the ultimate vertical gaming platform -- which help make it that much more successful.

[Darzai]

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Still don't see the point of installing Windows on Steam Deck to play android games.

Waydroid and Andbox are Linux Packages. Both use Android and let it run on the Kernel that you already using. No Windows is required.

Why are you telling me?

[Nemesis]

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But resolution is resolution, afaik windows doesnt do anything based on the physical size it only cares about resolution and therefore it shouldnt matter if you have a 20 inch screen with 720p or a 5 inch screen with 720p the "ui elements" should occupy the exact same pixels.

Pixels are not the only parameter. The density is also important and on 7 inch with 800p is high enough that you need image scaling. with this you are outside of it. of course, you could disable the scaling but then all elements are a bit small to read and touch.

There is no "image scaling" i dont think you know what you are talking about. The only thing that windows scales is its ui elements according to a user configurable "dpi" setting which is purely logical value (They should call it ui scale) which increases / decreases the size of the ui elements to accomodate higher / lower dpi screens.

[Ledow]

My MSI laptop has an Android App Player on it (accessing Google Play Store, loads all my apps), it's based on BlueStacks. There's no reason BlueStacks - or something like it - couldn't run on the Deck in some fashion.

However, you'll find that most of the games on Android won't run inside things like Bluestacks. I know for a fact that things like Mario Kart, etc. have a specific error code which basically means "I know that you're running me under an emulator and I won't let you proceed".

I control all my home automation via Android apps loaded into my phone and into the MSI App Player on my laptop, including CCTV video streaming, control of devices on my local network, etc. etc. but games tend to detect it and refuse to run, or give you weird error codes. Especially anything that goes online.

[10Minute*****DeckGamer]

I just released an update a few days ago - much easier and quicker to install, and multi touch now works!

Github here - \
https://github.com/ryanrudolfoba/SteamOS-Waydroid-Installer

Demo video here - \
https://youtu.be/06T-h-jPVx8