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We're happy to announce that ES-DE 3.5.0-65 for Android is now available for download! This release improves support for dual-screen devices by making it possible to configure per-system and per-game on which screen to launch games, instead of having only a global setting as was the case up until no

We're happy to announce that ES-DE 3.4.1-58 for Android is now available for download! This release adds support for three new systems, those being Namco-Sega-Nintendo Triforce (triforce), Microsoft Xbox (xbox) and Microsoft Xbox 360 (xbox360). Support has also been added for using GameNative to lau

We're happy to announce that ES-DE 3.4.0-56 for Android is now available for download! This release introduces play time tracking to show for how long games have been played, using an identical logic to how it works in Steam. This does however require that themes get updated to support this feature,

We're happy to announce that ES-DE 3.3.0-50 for Android is now available for download! Note that 3.3.0-50 is simply a hotfix for the 3.3.0-48 release to address two issues found in the game importer. As such the previous 3.3.0 release notes are still applicable. The issues fixed were that ES-DE woul

We're happy to announce that ES-DE 3.3.0-48 for Android is now available for download! This release brings a built-in game importer tool that makes it possible to import native android apps and games into the androidapps, androidgames and emulators systems and launch them from inside ES-DE. This too

We're happy to announce that ES-DE 3.2.0-45 for Android is now available for download! This release brings support for themeable system status indicators showing the Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, cellular and battery status for devices where such hardware is available. There is also a themeable clock added whic

We're happy to announce that ES-DE 3.1.1-39 for Android is now available for download! This release adds translations for German, Korean, Dutch and Catalan, reduces the application memory footprint, enables a number of new emulators and fixes numerous bugs. The default audio driver has been changed

Although most people have no issues receiving the update emails we send out when making new releases, there's still a small minority who don't receive these emails correctly. It seems like they mostly end up in the spam folder and on some services like Gmail these emails get automatically deleted af

Hi! We're happy to announce that ES-DE 3.1.0-32 for Android is now available for download! This release brings full localization support and includes translations to ten new languages. These are Spanish (Spain), French, Italian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Romanian, Russian, Swedish, Japanese and S

Hi! We're happy to announce that ES-DE 3.0.3-26 for Android is now available for download! This release enables a lot of new systems which brings Android much closer to the ES-DE desktop ports as far as system support is concerned. It also brings experimental support for setting ES-DE as the Android

Hi! I'm happy to announce that ES-DE 3.0.2-21 for Android is now available for download! This release improves scraping speed under some circumstances, adds experimental support for launching native Android apps and games, adds support for a couple of new emulators such as Lime3DS and Yaba Sanshiro

Hi everyone! As we have received some questions about the way future ES-DE updates will be distributed we thought it would be a good idea to post about it to clarify the situation. The way Patreon works is that if you pay for a membership and then change it to a free membership you'll get one month

Our theme developers have been hard at work, and three new high-quality themes have just been published. The first one is Retro Mega (Revisited) by ant, which is a port of the Retro Mega theme for the Pegasus frontend, originally created by djfumberger. The second theme is Slick (Remixed) by Weestua

Hi! We wish to thank everyone that participated in the device compatibility survey, we received 222 responses which we think was a very good outcome! A number of new devices were added to the compatibility list, which you can find here: https://gitlab.com/es-de/emulationstation-de/-/blob/master/ANDR

Hi! We have started to build an Android device compatibility database to make it possible for people that want to run ES-DE to see whether their device is supported, and/or if it has any known issues. You can find it here: https://gitlab.com/es-de/emulationstation-de/-/blob/master/ANDROID.md?ref_typ

Hi everyone! I'm happy to announce that ES-DE 3.0.1-19 for Android is now available for download! This release adds support for Android 10, removes support for the Yuzu emulator and includes a number of additional minor improvements and bug fixes. Although we understand that some of you will not be

Hi everyone! I'm happy to announce that ES-DE 3.0.0-17 for Android is now available for download! Download link: ES-DE_3.0.0-17.apk This is the MD5 hash in case you want to verify the file integrity: 7f7dd3e625484628165b96bbcc40bbd9 If you run into any issues I recommend joining our Discord server t

Thanks a lot for supporting ES-DE, here is the download link to the APK: ES-DE_3.0.0-15.apk