Valve rumored to be working on Android emulator for Steam

Valve throwing some money/developer time at Waydroid would be awesome

As far as I understand that's exactly what's been happening behind the scenes.
Proton is throwing money at wine IIRC
- Yes, that's what I meant. I hope they do something similar for waydroid.

SteamDeck, emulate everything.*

Proton technically isn't emulation, but it's pretty crazy that the device basically doesn't have anything natively built for it, everything is translated emulated. It took that much effort to break Microsoft's PC gaming monopoly.

The Deck is what have me the confidence to move to Linux on desktop. I wouldn't have switched if not for Valve.
translation is kind of native though. It is almost like porting a winfows app to linux in real time, on the fly. It is pretty cool
- Yeah it's pretty cool. Sometimes the translation can even beat native performance.
Regardless of what the website says, waydroid isn't an emulator by any meaningful definition.
It's a container that runs on top of your regular linux kernel (with some very cool desktop integration features), java/kotlin applications run as natively as they'd run on your phone.
- That's interesting. I didn't know that. I tried working with Waydroid once on Bazzite on an older desktop of mine and didn't get terribly far with it.

Guess they want to make it easy for mobile devs to launch their games on steam. Not sure if there's a market for it though.

Don't these guys have phones??? (Blizzard style)
Uhh.. for their steam deck I'd think 😂 not that it'd be a primarily mobile gaming device, but no reason not to put your mobile games on it if you like them
- This was my first thought. I've wanted to be able to play mobile games on my steam deck since I got it.
Maybe a start for their own Android store? And later an iOS store perhaps? (Although that's an entire different can of worms, regulations and apples)

No idea why it's difficult to run android on PC in the first place. Windows 11 can do it, but I'm clinging to 10 until it's gone.

Not a priority for Microsoft anymore.
https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/5/24091370/microsoft-windows-11-android-apps-end-of-support
- Still pisses me off, this was one of the reasons I updated and they half-assed the implemenation then said they're killing it because no one is using it... no shit no one is using it, you hid it it behind the Amazon App (that no one uses) in the MS Store (that no one uses) and layers of docs for sideloading.
Have you heard the good news about Linux?
- It is still surprisingly far from straightforward to get it working
  EDIT: I mean Android on Linux is difficult. Not Linux itself.
- Every. Fucking. Thread.

Hmm something about this has me fantasizing about a phone sized deck. But considering Valves development of VR and this development, I think they are going to tap into the android based VR dev pool for porting titles to an official Android on Steam platform.

I would like if someone managed Valve right and made HL3.

Valve makes infinitely more money off of store fees selling other people's games. Why would they want to make a fraction developing a single game when they can go after Android's 30% cut?
- ...So they have no issue burning a few million on HL3 knowing its a sunk cost to maybe keep some of the talent that has been leaving the company?

If this means I can play my Steam games on my phone... Yay! 🎉

More like the other way round.
You can stream steam games to your phone with steam link thought.
- Finally
  Steam phones on my game
- Wait, but Steam doesn't have Android games, right?
You can sort of do that with Winlator, but it's pretty early tech!

I mean you could say the Steam Deck is "just KDE on Arch".
The difference is how they implement it and what it's used for. This could be huge for "apps" on the Steam Deck, for example. Or it could be a quirky experiment or feature nobody uses. Time will tell.

You saying my mom's pussy is open source?
- Not just OSS.
  FOSS
Confirmed. They were two spots ahead of me in the line.
Well at least I know they won't get her pregnant, because I already have a sibling