Dolphin Emulator can be upload on Google Play Store with beta build

[nyanzabg]

It won't stop people with snapdragon 450, 625, 630, etc. from trying so it would only limit the problem a little bit instead of solving it.

[Nintonito]

(03-17-2018, 12:37 AM)Guilherme Wrote: Is there a way to make the Play Store version compatible only with Snapdragon and NVIDIA devices? It would avoid alot of complaint. If somone else want to use the emulator will need to download it from homepage.

It actually it quite possible. The play store offers a variety of granular filtering options for that. You can quite literally blacklist vendors, specific devices, or blacklist/whitelist chipsets. Unfortunately all that requires someone to want to figure it out.

[trihy]

Dolphin is a great piece of software. It must be on play store. The world deserve to know this project

But probably not know. When some workarounds or better drivers gets in, it should be on store with a proper device cpu blacklist.

Also the settings need to be more idiot proof. Most users on store wont know what xfb, efb, or other settings like that are.

[vuminhquan2011]

(03-16-2018, 05:40 PM)mbc07 Wrote: The reason Helios pointed alone is enough to why we don't have a Play Store version anymore.

Also, even if a theoretical new Play Store publishing were made, limiting its availability only to 64-bit devices compatible with OpenGL ES 3.0 and running Android 5.0 or newer in an AARCH64 or x86_64 processor, that would still cover a lot of mid and low-range devices that would still be able to install Dolphin, which would still run bad (assuming it doesn't crash on launch due buggy GPU drivers), and the result would be the same as in the past: lots of 1-star ratings with nothing useful in their comments other than "it runs bad", "where can I download ISOs", etc.

In other words...

I find out a reference how to blacklist about CPU , GPU and device
Here a reference : https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10670002/your-device-isnt-compatible-with-this-version
https://developer.android.com/google/play/filters.html#manifest-filters
To block if they used low end ARM64 CPU , i won't work and install on device

[Helios]

Nobody is saying it isn't possible, we're saying it's an annoying pain and nobody has stepped up to do the work to keep it synced with master

[Guilherme]

Well, it only needs an update a month or a week.

[Whatnoww]

Whitelisting devices would be the solution, but otherwise, it's hard to update the playstore app so frequently, unless you updated it every nth update.

[zxcvbad]

Beta for X1 and SD835/845 looks interesting though it's additionally time consumed to push updates manually, if it was an automated process from the release-android buildbot it would make sense, otherwise master release cycle neglects a purpose of being beta. Also there's nothing new (nor automated logcat/debug) that could be reported from by the users which dolphin developers doesn't know about

[JonnyH]

(03-23-2018, 10:58 PM)Whatnoww Wrote: Whitelisting devices would be the solution, but otherwise, it's hard to update the playstore app so frequently, unless you updated it every nth update.

The problem with all whitelists / "Update every N months" / whatever requires developer effort and testing to select those whitelisted devices and versions.

And developer & testing effort is a resource dolphin is severely lacking on android as it is.

[Nintonito]

I think something like this would make a lot more sense if the android version ever gets numbered version releases. If the android version isn’t stable enough to get a release when Dolphin does a stable output, then it’s not stable enough for the play store.