Loki Launcher 1.1.0

Couch Mode becomes a television interface of its own, and screen recording now renders the launcher inside a drawn dual-screen console.

Couch Mode

A living-room interface rather than the handheld layout at another size.

• Horizontal content rails — Continue playing, Favourites, the selected platform, Apps and Collections, built straight from your library so empty grid cells and handheld density never reach the television
• Platform sub-navigation — switch systems in place; the game shelf is replaced without opening a folder
• Sections along the top — Home, Movies, Stream and Settings, where a television puts its navigation
• Layered hero — the focused title crossfades into a drifting backdrop with its scraped logo and a floating cover
• Status cluster — clock and battery in the header
• One-screen Movies and Stream — catalogue, details, sources, hosts and live actions stay together, so the darkened handheld panel is never needed to finish anything

Settings → System & accessibility → Dual screen → Screen mode → Couch mode

The bottom panel is held black while it runs, so the system cannot light it with the wallpaper.

Screen recording

Recordings are drawn as a dual-screen console with each panel inside its own screen, the lid's larger than the base's.

Three faults fixed along the way:

• Recording only rendered in dual-display mode — starting one in any other mode wrote a file with nothing in it
• The encoder's size limit was applied to width and height separately, so a frame taller than the ceiling kept its width and lost its height, and the bottom panel was cut off
• Each panel is now composed at its real screen's density, not merely its shape, so a panel drawn smaller lays out identically to the screen it stands for instead of laying out as a smaller screen

Also

• Information panels rebuilt on a shared dossier layout, so the game and platform panels cannot drift apart
• Settings can no longer be lost by a removal. Retiring a setting used to make every settings file that named it unreadable, which Loki reports as corruption — and corruption resets everything. Grids, themes, ROM folders and API keys were all at risk on upgrade
• The walkthrough takes input again; it had been running with every button falling through to the launcher underneath
• Standalone emulators are preferred over RetroArch and Lemuroid, with 71 recognised
• The grid no longer reserves space for a section bar that is not drawn

Install

1. Download Loki.apk and open it on the device
2. Allow installation from unknown sources
3. Press Home and pick Loki

Extensions are optional. Download movies.json or stream.json and import from Settings → System & accessibility → Extensions.

Notes

Built for the AYN Thor and not tested on other hardware.

Signed with the Android debug key. It installs and runs normally, but is not a distribution identity — if a later release moves to a proper key you will have to uninstall and reinstall, losing your grid layout and settings.