Dolphin for Android: System Requirements

[YellowDart]

System Requirements

The following are requirements your Android device needs to meet in order to install the application:

• Android 5.0 or higher
• A 64-bit processor (AArch64/ARMv8 or x86_64)
• A version of Android that supports 64-bit applications
• A graphics processor that supports OpenGL ES 3.0 or higher.
  

If your device fails to meet any of these requirements, attempting to install Dolphin will return an error message reading "Application not installed."

Note that some devices are equipped with 64-bit processors but ships with 32-bit builds of Android. Installation will fail on these devices as well. There's no way to fix this, and no manufacturer has updated a 32-bit only device to support 64-bit apps.


So, what devices are supported?

The NVIDIA Shield Android TV and most high-end phones released in 2016 or later will meet these requirements.

[nohbdy820]

So would the NVIDIA Shield K1 qualify? I bought it thinking it did, since I found a YouTube Channel that shows the K1 running it pretty well. Is there a reason why mine cannot run (half) as well as his?
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJdg7_ANAli1P1cRXORETlqmcU_8-L3Hz
It shows several games running very well. My ROM runs well enough on my PC, so it can't be the ROM right?
I'm new here, so I don't know, but is this the same thing as the Google Play app?
Thanks for any answers!

[OatmealDome]

The Google Play version of Dolphin is /ancient/. (Just checked, it was last updated on November 3, 2014 and still supports 32-bit processors) The buildbot page you're looking at is a semi-outdated version (only like ~100 builds though) of Dolphin, so you'll have to go to the download page above to download the latest build.

[YellowDart]

(01-18-2016, 12:41 PM)nohbdy820 Wrote: So would the NVIDIA Shield K1 qualify? I bought it thinking it did, since I found a YouTube Channel that shows the K1 running it pretty well. Is there a reason why mine cannot run (half) as well as his?
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJdg7_ANAli1P1cRXORETlqmcU_8-L3Hz
It shows several games running very well. My ROM runs well enough on my PC, so it can't be the ROM right?
I'm new here, so I don't know, but is this the same thing as the Google Play app?
Thanks for any answers!

Those videos are well over a year old. If you run the exact build depicted in those videos, you may see similar performance. However, the Shield Tablet does not support 64-bit apps, and so if you have Android 5.0 installed on it, it is quite likely it won't even be able to run that build (because of the memory management changes in Android 5.0 that caused the 64-bit requirement.)

[nohbdy820]

(01-18-2016, 01:12 PM)YellowDart Wrote: Those videos are well over a year old. If you run the exact build depicted in those videos, you may see similar performance. However, the Shield Tablet does not support 64-bit apps, and so if you have Android 5.0 installed on it, it is quite likely it won't even be able to run that build (because of the memory management changes in Android 5.0 that caused the 64-bit requirement.)

Thanks, I guess, but if you had scrolled down, the latest video was December 2015, on at least Android 5.0 (Material Design home/back/apps buttons). I don't understand how he can run it. Can I still download an old version that runs on 32bit?

[YellowDart]

(01-18-2016, 01:25 PM)nohbdy820 Wrote: Thanks, I guess, but if you had scrolled down, the latest video was December 2015, on at least Android 5.0 (Material Design home/back/apps buttons). I don't understand how he can run it. Can I still download an old version that runs on 32bit?

The Dolphin Android UI was completely redone in May of last year. Those videos (yes, including the one uploaded in December) very clearly depict the old UI.

Your best chances for success are to contact the poster of the Youtube video.

[degasus]

(01-18-2016, 12:41 PM)nohbdy820 Wrote: So would the NVIDIA Shield K1 qualify?

There are two K1 chips available, and they *only* differ on the CPU. The older one with an A15 is only 32bit, the newer one with denver is already 64bit. So the newer one might run great (if also the user space is 64 bit), but the older one is by far more common. Be careful which one you'll get.

[YellowDart]

Just to be clear for posterity: the *only* device that has a 64-bit Denver-based Tegra K1 chip is the Google Nexus 9. The "Shield K1" is a rerelease of the original Shield Tablet with identical, 32-bit hardware. When degasus says the 32-bit K1 is more common, he's referring to the fact that only one device got the Denver version, not some random distribution of Shield K1's that got better hardware.

[degasus]

james1500: No need to paste the desktop requirements within the andoird forum. And this text seems to be outdated a lot. The more up-to-date version is on our homepage: https://dolphin-emu.org/docs/faq/#which-cpu-should-i-use

[nohbdy820]

(03-22-2016, 09:17 PM)degasus Wrote: james1500: No need to paste the desktop requirements within the andoird forum. And this text seems to be outdated a lot. The more up-to-date version is on our homepage: https://dolphin-emu.org/docs/faq/#which-cpu-should-i-use

I think you posted this to the wrong page...