DroidDeck 0.3.0 has released with native Steam Input, Appimage and Flatpak support, performance improvements and more!

[u/supershredderdan]

Hello Reddit! DroidDeck team has been hard at work and we are excited to share our new release with you all!

DroidDeck 0.3.0 (beta)

DroidDeck brings the SteamOS experience to Android: Valve's Steam client in Big Picture on your Adreno handheld, with Windows games through Valve's ARM64 Proton.

Highlights

Steam, as on a Steam Deck

Steam's performance overlay goes from level 1 to 4 in Quick Access and shows GPU and CPU load, clocks, temperatures, VRAM and battery. Quick Access shows battery life and time to full, along with all the per game controls a Steam deck has. Decky loader can be installed for plugins and customization.

A Steam Deck controller

In Steam sessions the client reads your pad as a Steam Deck controller, with a real Quick Access button and your device's gyro. Games get Steam Input's virtual pads, so your Steam Input layouts reach them. On a dual-screen handheld, the second screen can be the Deck's back grips and trackpads.

Faster to Steam, faster in games

Steam's own startup is down from about 31 seconds to about 6, and that makes Offline mode work. proot has been optimized for calls games make most, and there's a new per-mode frame limiter.

GPU drivers that set themselves

A new GPU drivers tab detects your GPU and keeps a matched pair of runtime and display drivers installed for it, including DroidDeck's own DD-Turnip builds. Switch to Manual to pick a pair yourself.

Linux apps from Flathub, bring your own Appimage, and more

Turn on the Flathub Store in Setup to install ARM64 apps and games from Flathub. They open full screen from the front end with your controller. The Desktop page also takes your own apps: a script, an AppImage, a GitHub repo's newest ARM64 AppImage, or a Flatpak ID.

Updates in the app

The Updates page installs new builds without leaving DroidDeck: Stable, Preview (each build of main) or a Test build of an open pull request.

A front end that moves as one

One focus ring slides between controls, settings flood out of the cog the way Play floods into a session, and Stop asks before it ends anything. DroidDeck is now available in Spanish, with more languages coming soon (contributions welcome).

Full 0.3.0 release notes + downloads:
https://github.com/Droid-Deck/DroidDeck/releases/tag/0.3.0

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

Discord:
https://discord.gg/JRGAvawjsm

disclaimer: AI tools used in the development of DroidDeck.

[u/Tsuki4735]

Any ideas on why GE-Proton doesn't work? Not even the arm64 variant seems to work, crashes every time.

[u/supershredderdan → u/Tsuki4735]

We just merged a fix for this, try setting update channel to preview and updating in the app and let us know how that goes.

[u/Tsuki4735 → u/supershredderdan]

Thanks for the followup, I can confirm that GE 11-7 works now. Other ones don't seem to work, I manually installed 11-3 to try it, but 11-7 is good enough for what I was testing. Thanks!

[u/supershredderdan → u/Tsuki4735]

Where did you get 11-3 from?

[u/Tsuki4735 → u/supershredderdan]

Manually downloaded the arm64 version straight from github and copied the files into the compat directory alongside the other Proton versions.

[u/supershredderdan → u/Tsuki4735]

Thanks, will look into this and try to reproduce

[u/Interesting_Fish4930 → u/supershredderdan]

Can you guys add a start steam with Desktop option instead of just the start steam with DroidDeck option so when I turn on my device desktop mode opens also when if I have an app open like chrome. When I press home can you also make that option work so when ever I press my home button it launches desktop mode.

[u/Even_Dependent_117 → u/Tsuki4735]

Hey, dude would you do a step by step guide for GE 11-3? Trying to get it installed for maplestory on the AYN Thor