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thingsiplay@lemmy.ml 3 weeks agoIf you are interacting with Gamehub (proprietary), then I would look into Gamehub-lite (the patches are Open Source on top of the proprietary original): github.com/Producdevity/gamehub-lite
GameHub Lite is a modified version of GameHub that:
- Removes telemetry and tracking - Umeng analytics, Firebase, JPush, crash reporting
- Removes bloat - Cloud Streaming, Xbox Cloud Gaming, Social features, etc.
- Removes account requirement - Use the app without logging in
- Reduces app size - From 118MB to 52MB (-56%)
- Removes unnecessary permissions - Location, contacts, phone state, etc.
- Adds offline support - Works without constant network connectivity
- Changes package name - gamehub.lite for side-by-side installation
- Adds custom news page - Uses community API for updates
gamenative.app - And then there is GameNative, which is entirely Open Source. Some say that the GameHub devs stealing code or ideas from GameNative, because its suspicious whenever they have a new feature, it only takes very short amount of time for GameHub to do it too. But nobody knows. So I would personally recommend GameNative instead.
I personally didn’t experiment with ARM yet, outside Raspberry Pie 3B and that is ages ago (10 years…). And off course phones. The Steam Frame is really something else and more than just VR. I’m surprised it will have Android app support. Maybe Valve plans on adding an Android category that is not VR related? But I guess developers would need to release and upload their games to this shop, similar to how they do it on Google or F-Droid. This is highly speculative from my part BTW, there are no words about that. Valve tried to expand into films too, which would have been something like Amazon Prime videos or like that. BTW I would love to watch a film in VR.
FoxAlive@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Android support is to run the apks that the meta quests use to play natively, sense they just use a modified version of android they’re pretty much mobile phones already.
thingsiplay@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
Steam Frame uses Lepton, which is a fork of Waydroid (similar to how Proton is a fork of WINE).
FoxAlive@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Yeah that’s amazing thats another translation layer thats vital for Linux phones.
Thats what im getting excited about. If someone makes use of all this progress we could have decent capable smart phones that at the very least have all the attractive software and apps which is the hardest part.
Sure getting the actual phone elements to work is still hard but we have a few options already and the main issue with those, is that no ones going to adopt it because they can’t use messenger or play candy crush anymore. They’re just boring phones again, and unless you find it fun writting code or playing in the terminal, it gets boring fast. Being able to play skyrim on your phone makes it sound like a fair trade off in some regards. People might be more willing to change their other habits and apps they used if there was at least one solid source of dopamine. I don’t know if you guys noticed but every app is basicially made to hijack your reward center, and switching to a privacy phone is like quiting smoking cold turkey.
thingsiplay@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
And people joke Valve does nothing and wins. How on earth are they doing nothing? :D BTW I’m using FreeTube and its annoying how often I have to change IP too (thank god VPNs). And the buffering issues and so on on top of it, I have to copy the link to separate video player an watch it there… YouTube got unbearable!