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tym0 | 3 months ago

Now that they've ported Steam to Android with FEX + Proton [0] (what this is running), the question is will they release it for the rest of Android devices? There is a ton of Android gaming handhelds and people are already experimenting with things like Winlator [1] but having well supported way could be awesome.

[0] https://github.com/FEX-Emu/FEX

[1] https://github.com/brunodev85/winlator

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robhlt|3 months ago

It's running SteamOS according to the tech specs on the store page, not Android.

https://store.steampowered.com/sale/steamframe

zzsshh|3 months ago

Google has also agreed to officially open up to competing app stores from the next version(https://www.theverge.com/policy/813991/epic-google-proposed-...), so the time is ideal for this. Valve, if you're reading this, please release Steam for Android.

TGower|3 months ago

Unfortunately not, at least outside of the Linux VM shipping in new Android versions https://wiki.fex-emu.com/index.php/FAQ#Will_FEX-Emu_.28Linux...

tym0|3 months ago

It appears I was wrong about Android. The fact that they said you could just install APKs on it made me think what they called SteamOS was just Android here but your link is clear that FEX doesn't run there.

Guess they have yet another translation layer to run these APKs?

SSLy|3 months ago

this has nothing to do with Android