Release MaliBridge v0.5.4 · ASEbrahim/MaliBridge

Download: DroidDeck-MaliBridge-v0.5.4.apk (below, under Assets). Install it over v0.5.3.1: your games, settings and Steam login stay.

Fixes

Green squares and red-tinted textures on the Dimensity 9500 (Mali-G1-Ultra) in games like Hollow Knight, Silksong and Hades should be gone. Thanks to Mondyro for finding it (#24).
Black picture with sound on Samsung Exynos phones (Xclipse GPU): games should show now.
Black Steam screen on older Mali GPUs (Mali-G57, G68 and similar, like the Galaxy A16 and Galaxy F15). Steam's menus are now drawn without the GPU on those phones; games still use the GPU. If it ever comes back, set the new Steam menus setting (next to Safe mode) to software.
Missing or garbled text in Balatro and other OpenGL games is fixed.
Fewer crashes when a phone runs low on memory. A game that runs out of memory now stops on its own instead of taking Steam and everything else down with it.
Less stutter on later launches: a game that starts with little free memory no longer loses what it saved on earlier runs, so the stutter doesn't come back every time.
The screen is updated once per game frame, not twice: less work for the phone. Half-Life 2 runs about 6% faster on the Tab S11 Ultra.
Games no longer lose their picture at the end of a session that Android had paused in the background for a long time.
The app no longer crashes at session start when a setting was stored in the wrong form.
Flickering, wrong-coloured picture after changing graphics settings (seen in Ori and the Will of the Wisps on a Mali-G720) should be fixed.

Updates inside the app: the app checks MaliBridge's releases, shows what's new and installs the update when you tap it. Wi-Fi only if you want.
Some games are set up automatically on Mali: Don't Starve Together, Half-Life 2 and RimWorld on older phones, and Indiana Jones and the Emperor's Tomb get the settings they need. Settings you change yourself are kept.
Send logs to MaliBridge: one tap uploads a session's logs and gives you a short code like ML-7F3K to paste in your GitHub issue or on Discord. It's in Setup > Diagnostics, on the session's end screen and in the side menu.
The game's own logs come along (Unity and Unreal games' logs and crash reports, and SOMA's log) in Share logs and Send logs.
Performance HUD (side menu → Display) now shows battery level, battery temperature, the battery's power draw in watts and Android's thermal state next to the fps.
Steam's Performance Overlay now shows on Samsung tablets that hide their temperature sensors (the Galaxy Tab S10 series and similar). It only runs while it's switched on in Steam's Performance menu.
Setup shows a Mali GPU as ready when the Mali bridge is on, instead of "GPU not supported".
GPUs other than Mali can try it too: a player's Galaxy S26+ (Samsung Xclipse) runs Steam and games. Adreno phones keep using the official DroidDeck.

Logs say more when something goes wrong: the first graphics error a game hit, how Android ended the app, what took too long to load, and why a session stopped right at start on some phones.
The session report shows a game's GPU memory again, says "unknown" for a CPU limit it can't read, and lists CPU cores held at one clock while a game ran.
The device report no longer says a Mali GPU "needs an Adreno" when the Mali bridge is on.
Share logs works with more apps (the zip stays readable while the app you shared it to opens it).
The session report no longer lists normal behaviour as warnings, and says when a game stopped showing new frames.

Short freezes while moving in some games that stream their textures in as you walk (Dark Souls III, Hob). Being worked on.
On vivo phones Steam's menus can be slow (about 15 fps) with a white flash when a menu opens. Logs from a vivo phone on v0.5.4 help.
Resident Evil 2 can show "Failed to send play data to RE NET" on its menu. Press OK: the game plays normally.
Dark Souls III on slower devices can say "Frame rate unsuitable for online play": that is the game's own rule below about 20 fps, so play it offline there.

Everything else is the same as v0.5.3.1.

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Source: MaliBridge v0.5.4 · DroidDeck Mali v0.5.4: DroidDeck-Mali-v0.5.4-source.tar.gz below (its MaliBridge part is the tagged source above)