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TapiocaFox / Daijishou

Daijishō is a retro launcher that let you manage your retro games libraries. This repo is for assets and served as a main page.
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Android as a platform #37

Closed LegendDarkness97 closed 2 years ago

LegendDarkness97 commented 2 years ago

Hi, would it be possible to add Android as a platform (for native Android games) - similiar to how Dig does it? Adding Games (or other apps) to that platform could be done via an additional context action in the 'Apps' tab. While you can start native Android games via the 'Apps' tab, at least personally, I prefer not to hide all non-game apps. In addition, having an Android platform would make switching between retro games and native Android games feel more coherent and seemless. Still, the logic for this platform would need to be quite different to all other ones so I dont know how difficult it would be to implement.

Regardless, great work on Daijisho, it is propably my favourite retro frontend on Android at the moment.

TapiocaFox commented 2 years ago

Thanks for bringing it up. Will leave it open until solutions come up.

rockedsocks commented 2 years ago

I think adding android games as a separate tab in the launcher might help. Either that or making widgets launch apps/ adding dividers could help

TapiocaFox commented 2 years ago

After trying implantation for Android apps as a platform. Thumbs looks like crap, result is not fluid. And the FLAG_IS_GAME often includes emulators apps. So I eventually add a "only games" options along with show/hide game button in apps page. On version 1.2.12. And with the version. If ppl really want that Android platform you can manually download and manually import Android platform from this GitHub page.

TapiocaFox commented 2 years ago

https://github.com/magneticchen/Daijishou/blob/main/platforms/Android.json.deprecated

pomdtr commented 2 years ago

It would be cool to be able to mark an app as a game. The Xbox apps do not show up with the only games filter.

LegendDarkness97 commented 2 years ago

Same issue with KOTOR. Strangely in DIG it does, but that has some massive issues with other platforms. On the other hand, being able to hide apps in the "only games" filter would be nice as well, because, as you said, the emulators show up as well. Would marking an app as a game result in it appearing in the Android platform as well? Because that would be nice, but I also understand that the Android platform was more of a test and thus not a focus of further development.

pomdtr commented 2 years ago

I think having a favourite filter in the app screen would solve my issue. It would allow me to favourite all of my games, without depending on some kind of tags set by the apps devs.

LegendDarkness97 commented 2 years ago

Yeah, that would work as well. Coupling the Android platform with the favorites selection would then be nice as well (if it isnt too much work). Because I actually like it. Yes, the thumbnails arent great, but at least on my Retroid Pocket 2+ it feels like using any other platform. My only issue currently with it is, as already mentioned, that some games (AM2R and SW KOTOR for me) are missing and I cant manually add them. Otherwise it works fine.

TapiocaFox commented 2 years ago

I think having a favourite filter in the app screen would solve my issue. It would allow me to favourite all of my games, without depending on some kind of tags set by the apps devs.

Instead of favouriting apps. Daijihou provides "hiding apps" ability. Doesn't know if that will help tho.

TapiocaFox commented 2 years ago

Will replace current hidden mode by introducing flag/unflag apps as games in future 1.3.x version. (Remaining two mode "all apps" and "games").

And also will allow user to pin apps to widgets page.

TapiocaFox commented 2 years ago

The changes have made in 1.3

TapiocaFox commented 2 years ago

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