Barony Android Port 5.0.2 Beta 10

Barony Android Port 5.0.2 Beta 10

Beta 10 adds mod and translation support. It retains Beta 9's holiday-theme
startup fix and input improvements, Beta 8's experimental direct LAN
multiplayer, and the earlier rendering, owned-data, save-management, and
DLC-entitlement improvements.

New

• Mods and community translations work through Barony's own
  Play Modded Game menu (#5, #8).
• Data & Saves > Import mods installs mods from a ZIP, and
  Remove mods uninstalls them. Changes apply the next time the game opens.
• The archive builder's new -Mods option packs your Steam Workshop
  subscriptions and local PC mods into Barony-Android-Mods.zip. Workshop
  mods are named after their Workshop titles.
• Mod ZIPs from other sources can be imported directly.

Fixed

• Loading a mod now reloads only the game data that the mod changes. Before,
  Android reloaded every model, sound, music track, and texture, which was slow
  and used a lot of memory.
• Your loaded mods are remembered even when Android closes the game in the
  background.

How to use mods

Follow the step-by-step
mods guide.
Use this release's Barony-Android-Data-Archive-Builder-5.0.2.ps1; older
builders can't pack mods. Mods made for other Barony versions may not work.

Verification

• Clean signed ARM64 release build from commit
  b9186f5b9eaf5febfc12c1326690c00114324630.
• The APK passed signature, package/version/SDK, exact permission, exact ARM64
  native-library, open-source-notice, and commercial-data boundary checks.
• Runtime testing for this release used an Android 15 x86_64 emulator and the
  ARM64 build under the emulator's ARM translation, not physical phones:
  • Mod ZIPs with a single mod, several mods, and the builder's manifest
    imported and installed; a ZIP without mod files was rejected; removal
    applied on the next start.
  • Real Steam Workshop mods (a texture pack and a 141 MB music pack) and a
    language mod loaded in Play Modded Game, and each reloaded only what it
    changes.
  • The exact signed APK installed on the emulator with a matching hash,
    reached the main menu with all required startup markers, and imported
    and installed a two-mod archive. A mod whose oversized data file trips a
    debug-only assertion loaded without a crash.
• Hosted Android CI built and verified clean smoke and full ARM64 debug APKs
  from public main.

Reports from physical devices are especially welcome.

Compatibility

• ARM64 devices running Android 8.0 or newer.
• Offline single-player and experimental direct LAN multiplayer. For LAN games
  with mods, every player has to load the same mods.
• Gamepad, mouse/keyboard, and optional touch controls.
• Users must own compatible Barony 5.0.2 game data and any DLC they enable.
• Existing Beta 5 or newer owned-data archives, saves, settings, and transferred
  DLC entitlements remain compatible; no archive rebuild is required.