One of the biggest and most exciting upgrades to come about has been the new authenticator system. The dated UI of the previous app version is long gone, with the new one having a navigable menu towards the bottom of the screen. The new app brings a redesign and a much more modern feel, which pairs nicely with the Steam Deck’s UI. Now, the Steam app is fully available on the Google Play Store to download now for most Android devices. Back when it become available for beta testers, we took dove into it, noting all of the different changes that had come about – of which there were many. In beta form, the new Steam app has been around for a couple of months. Now, a new Steam app rebuild has finally launched on Android, bringing along a totally new design and a multitude of improvements. See today’s commit history if you want more details.For a long time, the Steam mobile app was a necessary evil, needed in order to log in anywhere you went. In any event, if this does happen it will be some exciting news! That’s how you should similarly take it when it comes to comments like this. Picture a grain of salt sitting on your Deck: This way Valve can add support for Android games, as they had alluded to in the interview. So I guess it would be a win-win situation for both the developer/publisher of the game and Valve. With Waydroid, the developers of the game wouldn’t have to convert their code from ARM to x86. Valve did mention in their interview with The Verge that they were looking at supporting mobile, touch-only games to the Deck. Therefore this would allow the Deck to run Android-based games with a container. Waydroid, in case you’re not aware, “uses a container-based approach to boot a full Android system on a regular GNU/Linux system.” Given that the Steam Deck uses Gamescope, this would allow said device to boot and use Android. Given we are only expecting like 1-2 xdg-shell windows for our current usecases ( Waydroid, etc) I think this is reasonable for now. With this added, and following the comment of one of the developers ( Joshua Ashton), it appears as though they’re looking into Waydroid support.Gamescope just got native Wayland client support.They just pointed out to me some of the commits that have been pushed today. A couple of developers who I’m friends with have closely been following the commit history to Gamescope.

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