The inherited module is gone from app/src/main/assets/pulseaudio.tzst (74 → 73 modules); CI adds
the app's own at build time and refuses a bundle that already has one. BUNDLE_STAMP bumped so an
installed app re-unpacks.
Blocking-write design: the IO thread pulls one burst at a time from the sink and hands it to a
blocking AAudio output stream, whose buffer paces the thread; latency comes from the stream's
playback timestamp; with adaptive=1 the buffer grows a burst per underrun up to a cap. Same
module arguments as before, so the daemon's config line is unchanged. build.sh compiles it with
the NDK against the app's own libpulse* and a small config.h; a workflow checks it on every push.
Four of Armada's patches apply to 3.16.29 as they are (appid-focus fallback, ARM64 night mode,
ARM64 colour-temperature slider, P3 red); two more are ported by hand: realtime-priority Vulkan
queues on GAMESCOPE_FORCE_VULKAN_REALTIME=1 without CAP_SYS_NICE, and the gamepad cursor sprite
following the X pointer. build-gamescope.yml builds Arch Linux ARM's package with them in an
Arch container, checks every NEEDED library against the runtime's own list, and publishes the
binary as a release asset for the apk to stage over /usr/local/bin/gamescope.
A Games folder chosen in the Steam cog is scanned one level deep, one subfolder per game; the
program to launch is the .exe named after the folder, else the largest, never an installer,
redistributable or crash reporter, and the settings page lets the user pick another for any
game. Each session the app writes the list, and bannerlator-steam-shortcuts puts the games into
the client's shortcuts.vdf as non-Steam games (the client's own entries kept) with the appid the
client itself derives, mapped to the ARM64 Proton through the compat registrar. They appear in
the rail under Steam and launch by steam://rungameid/ like any title.
On device the client's console log showed the calls: /usr/bin/steamos-polkit-helpers/steamos-update,
steamos-select-branch, jupiter-biosupdate and jupiter-dock-updater - the polkit-helpers path, not
/usr/bin. The missing steamos-update there was the 'Update Error' dialog. Stubs at both paths now.
Also seen on device: -steamdeck alone opts the install into the steamdeck_stable branch too, so the
branch guard is what keeps a session from reinstalling; and on the publicbeta channel Deck mode
reports installed version 0 at every start and reinstalls the same client (rc=42, the launch URL
lost with it), while on steamdeck_publicbeta the second launch comes up with no restart at all.
The five files the audit measured as Winlator's are replaced: a one-method callback interface by
java.util.function.Consumer, the component base by SessionPart (attach an application context,
start, stop), the environment list by HostEnvironment, the process starter by HostProcess, and
the pad's state holder by PadState with named sticks, triggers, directions and buttons. The
frame-generation tree is framegen/ (its contents were never Winlator's: lsfg-vk's port and
Bannerlator's Win-FG), the log tags are the app's, and the fake pad's rumble socket is now one
the app actually serves: RumbleComponent turns a game's force-feedback effects into the phone's
vibrator, which used to go nowhere. The two design notes describing Bannerlator's X11 path are
gone, and the README and credits say what is whose.
Deck mode passes -steamdeck alone: -steamos3 opted the install into the steamdeck_stable
branch and started the restart loop Bannerlator hit on device (38996ea1). The SteamOS helpers
the client calls in that mode - the two Armada found it needs under steamos-polkit-helpers and
the three under /usr/bin - are staged from the apk as no-op stubs. The client branch on disk is
kept in step with the one forced on the command line, and an update that cannot install stops
the session after three restarts instead of looping for ever.
The Steam cog gets a Client branch row: public beta (every session so far) or Steam Deck
public beta, the channel Armada bootstraps from.
The client reads /sys/class/power_supply/BAT<n>/; Android's supply is called battery and laid
out differently, so the Quick Access Menu had no battery. BatteryComponent writes BAT0 and BAT1
from Android's battery API every five seconds - status, percentage, charge, energy, power and
time to empty - into a directory bound over /sys/class/power_supply.
Palette (ui/Theme.kt): background, surfaces, lines, type, a primary with its gradient partner,
and a separate signal colour for rules, rings, dots and the eyebrow - the blue in every theme,
while the primary is white in Paper and blue in the other two. Every colour the screens used to
hard-code (the purple gradient end, the green, the two line greys) now comes from the palette,
so a change under Setup applies at once, and the session drawer and the file manager pick the
saved theme up when they open.
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