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Reply to @EdBoatConnoisseur@loli.church
SuperPacheFriend@SuperSnekFriend@tsundere.love (2026-09-19 09:53:17)
@EdBoatConnoisseur 
That it is 2026 and there is still not a stable, well-featured, and documented Android emulator or compatibility layer that is also not trying scam you, beg for money, and "accidentally" unleash malware on your PC ought to shame the tech world and all those open source fags who proudly boast of the collaborative spirit.
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EdBoatConnoisseur@EdBoatConnoisseur@loli.church (2026-09-19 11:22:12)
@SuperSnekFriend@tsundere.love okay i did more reading, lepton is a valve fork of waydroid, in a similar vein to how proton is a fork of wine, waydroid development is one of the developments of all time... but steam is betting on it rather than using money to get a deal with genymotion to use their emulator in steam so maybe they hired developers that are confident on making lepton work where waydroid found hurdles, being a waydroid fork it needs to run on wayland or at least a wayland kiosk (weston, cage), the android game needs to have an x86 build OR arm translation layers need to be added as compatibility tools to lepton (libndk and libhoudini) in similar manner to how some libraries are added to per game proton prefixes, if the game is NOT in steam it will require manual installation of the apk through ADB...

in other words at least right now it is not possible to just click on settings and click add a non steam game to play android games with steam, but maybe in some years.

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Blurry Moon@sun@shitposter.world (2026-09-20 15:15:34)
@EdBoatConnoisseur @SuperSnekFriend I think it is only for steambox after looking at the code