ZomboidDS 1.5.1

More useful deck commands: pin them to the tab bar, and new commands for emotes, auto-walk and dropping what you're holding.

New

• Pin to the tab bar: hold a command, like Weapons, to pin it at the end of the tab bar. It's there on every tab: Weapons shows what's in your hands, and a tap opens your hotbar over what you're looking at. You can pin up to two. To unpin, hold the pin, or hold the command again.
• Emotes: a new command with the emotes from the emote wheel, by group, one tap each. Hold an emote to add it to Favourites (up to 6).
• Auto-walk: a new command that keeps walking the way you were going.
• Drop held: a new command that drops what's in your hands (never a favourite), after asking first. Then it turns into Pick up again: one tap puts them back in your hands while they're nearby.

Improved

• Weapons shows the weapon in your hands, also when you equipped it from your inventory. A line above your hotbar then says so, with Put away.
• In Add or edit, numbers beside your commands show which row of the Deck each one lands in.
• Performance and stability improvements.

Update

• From 1.5.0: open the app's setup screen (outside a game), tap Download, then Install. Then Update the mod in the checklist (0.28.0), with Zomdroid closed. The new commands need the updated mod.
• New install: download ZomboidDS-1.5.1.apk below and follow the user guide.

SHA-256 of ZomboidDS-1.5.1.apk: 90cd6919a26387faa7478075baa2c3049607cc2ee2e7cd6fce5f3d0d2d5b3dc3

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ZomboidDS 1.5.0

Device Options on the bottom screen for TVs, radios and CD players, a tab order you choose, and ZombieBuddy 2.3.4 for Build 42.21.

New

• TVs, radios, walkie-talkies and CD players: Device Options opens on the bottom screen. Turn the device on, pick a channel, set the volume or mute it, and play or stop a tape or CD. Tune a radio with the number pad and Save preset to keep the station. Tapes, CDs, batteries and headphones on you or in the containers around you are listed on the right: tap one to put it in, or drag it onto its slot. Your character walks over and does it, as with the game's window. It works for car radios too.
• Choose your tab order: hold any tab, then drag the tabs into the order you like. Reset puts them back. The app also opens on the tab you were on last.
• Join the Discord: there's a ZomboidDS Discord now, linked in the About card on the setup screen.

Improved

• Build 42.21: the 42.21 update stopped ZombieBuddy 2.3.3 from loading Java mods, ZomboidDS included. The setup list now notices an older ZombieBuddy and offers Update, which downloads 2.3.4, the version that fixes it.
• The setup list folds into one line once everything is set up, so the About card shows below it. Tap it to see the steps again.

Fixed

• The setup screen flickered every few seconds while waiting for the game.

Update

• From 1.4.0: open the app's setup screen (outside a game), tap Download, then Install. If the checklist offers a ZombieBuddy Update, tap it and install the new version in Zomdroid as the checklist says. Then Update the mod in the checklist (0.27.0), with Zomdroid closed. Device Options needs the updated mod.
• New install: download ZomboidDS-1.5.0.apk below and follow the user guide.

SHA-256 of ZomboidDS-1.5.0.apk: 7671596d6ad042adcd84868a1488622f28403d23d2d9b12b48bb1ad937540286

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ZomboidDS 1.4.0

Two new modes under Craft ▾, Build and Tailor, a calmer Here tab, and a fix for food that didn't age.

New

• Build: tap Craft ▾ and pick Build for the game's build menu: everything you can build, with what each needs and what you have. Versions of the same thing share one tile (Wood Chair: Shoddy, Poor, Good); pick the version in its panel. Place brings up the game's own build cursor on the top screen: the d-pad moves it, LB/RB turn it, A builds and B stops. The cursor stays up for the next one, and the bottom screen says what you're placing (red when something runs out), with Stop.
• Tailor: Craft ▾ → Tailor shows your clothes, worn and in your bags, with their holes and patches, and the needle, thread and fabric you carry. Tap a garment to see every body part it covers, with its Bite and Scratch protection, holes, blood and patches, as in the game's Inspect window. Tap a part to patch a hole, add padding or remove a patch. Your character sews it, and the part shows the progress. Inspect on a garment, in the app's item panel or in the game, opens the same view.

Improved

• Here holds still. Each object keeps its place as you walk, instead of the cards reshuffling with every step. What you're facing gets an outline and goes on top once you've faced it for a second, and the one you faced before stays right under it. Disassemble and loose actions (Sit on ground) sit in a row at the bottom, and lists like Disassemble or Wash open over the cards instead of stretching them. While your finger is on the screen, nothing moves.

Fixed

• Food didn't age while you used the app instead of the game's inventory window. Frozen food never thawed, and playing without the mod afterwards made everything rot at once. Food ages, freezes and thaws as in the game again, and wet clothes in your bags dry. (Thanks for reporting /u/Efficient_Ship1353)
• Opening a car's trunk opened the game's loot window on the top screen. It opens on the bottom screen now, like Loot, and one tap of A opens or closes it once.
• A container that appeared or went away nearby (like an opened or closed trunk) showed up in the app only after you moved or turned.
• With the Thor's focus setting on Automatic, the layout menus (inventory layout, map position) took the controller away from the game.
• Android could say ZomboidDS isn't responding when you pressed controller buttons while the game wasn't running.

Update

• From 1.3.x: open the app's setup screen (outside a game), tap Download, then Install. Then Update the mod in the checklist (0.26.0), with Zomdroid closed. Build, Tailor and the new Here need the updated mod.
• New install: download ZomboidDS-1.4.0.apk below and follow the user guide.

SHA-256 of ZomboidDS-1.4.0.apk: b148bdb2bb10e687be740037ea9c1c68f0cb0bde13fb0a6963785a8c7117c504

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ZomboidDS 1.3.1

A smaller update with fixes and improvements from #5 and #7. Thanks Devric for the feedback.

Improvements

• Food is named the way the game names it, like "Steak (Fresh, Cooked)" or "Bread (Stale)". In list view the words are coloured: green for fresh, yellow for stale and uncooked, red for rotten and burnt. In grid view the tile's corner says Cooked, Uncooked or Burnt, and the freshness dot stays.
• Cooking: while food is in a lit oven or on a stove, a bar along its tile fills as it cooks, the same bar the game shows in its inventory. It turns red once the food starts burning, so you can take it out in time from the bottom screen.
• Bottles, pots and other fluid containers show how full they are: "0.3 / 0.6 L" in list view, a bar on the tile in grid view, and in the item panel what's in them in the game's colour for it. The name says what's in it too, like "Water Bottle (Water)" or "Empty Water Bottle".
• Moving part of a stack: in a stack's item panel, every container under Move to now has a 1 button and a half button. Tapping the container itself still moves the whole stack.
• Unfolding a stack: tap a stack's ×5 badge and its items show one by one, like the Worn tile. Each one can be tapped, picked or dragged on its own, so you can move exactly the ones you want. Tap the badge again to fold it.
• Read books and magazines, watched tapes and heard CDs get the game's green tick.
• Items you set Unwanted in the game (item menu, under More) are faded, like the game greys them out.

Fixed

• With Worn unfolded in list view, swiping on your clothes didn't scroll the list. It drew a selection box instead. This happened in all three layouts.

Update

• From 1.3.0: open the app's setup screen (outside a game), tap Download, then Install. Then Update the mod in the checklist (0.24.0), with Zomdroid closed.
• New install: download ZomboidDS-1.3.1.apk below and follow the user guide.

SHA-256 of ZomboidDS-1.3.1.apk: ca3b083bc8359b9f1f068051f580e8c7cb36cf90318606cfd4b863c92a478d32

ZomboidDS 1.3.0

This release adds a map to the bottom screen (thanks for #2), plus a few inventory improvements and fixes.

New: the map

• The game's minimap on the bottom screen, drawn from the game's own map data in the minimap's colours. It follows you (or your car), and the arrow points where you face.
• It only shows what you've explored, like the game's minimap. Places you haven't been are greyed out.
• It sits beside the Here tab, on the left or the right, or on a tab of its own. The button in the map's top-left corner moves it. The Map tab is a small map icon, so the other tabs keep their room.
• Zoom with + and −, drag to look around. It comes back to you after a few seconds, or right away with ⌖. Zoom stops at about a town's worth of map, so it stays a minimap.
• The star button shows map symbols: the icons and notes you put on your world map, and the game's own place names. Off by default, like the game's minimap.
• It only appears on saves that allow the minimap (Sandbox options, Map, Allow Mini-Map). If you want it on other saves too, tick Map on every save in the game's Options → Mods → ZomboidDS. It never shows on saves without the world map.

Improvements

• The inventory has a layout picker (the button next to Put all): top and bottom, side by side (new), or one at a time. Side by side puts your containers on the left and the ones around you on the right, each the full height. In list view every item gets a full-width row, so long names fit.
• What's new: the app shows what changed after an update, and every earlier version is listed too. You can open it again from the About card on the start screen.
• The weight bar on the open container tab now has a track, so a nearly empty container doesn't look like a stray mark in the corner.

Fixed

• Tapping Worn in list view didn't unfold your clothes in the top-and-bottom layout: the pane had no room for the extra rows.

Update

• From 1.2.x: open the app's setup screen (outside a game), tap Download, then Install. Then Update the mod in the checklist (0.23.1), with Zomdroid closed.
• New install: download ZomboidDS-1.3.0.apk below and follow the user guide.

SHA-256 of ZomboidDS-1.3.0.apk: b6ce6ffffa813b47da89377e59f3387d0260d45ac7a4a5254ec03a6e6822854a

ZomboidDS 1.2.1

Improvements to Inventory Management: Multi-Select & Batch Actions

This update tackles the second half of the inventory overhaul, adding desktop-style multi-selection so you can grab, move, and use groups of items all at once.

✨ New Features

• Hold to Pick: Hold an item and let go without moving to select it. Once active, just tap other items to add or remove them from your selection.
• Box Selection: Draw a box starting from empty space over multiple items to select them together, mirroring the game's native PC inventory window.
• Batch Actions & Menus: A new N selected › panel opens up your options for the highlighted group. Use it to "Move to..." all at once, or use the game's native menu to Drop, Eat, or process the lot. Tap the ✕ or tap empty space to clear your selection.
• Group Drag & Drop: Grab and drag any single picked item, and the rest of the selected group will automatically come along.

🔄 How to Update

• Updating from 1.2.0: Make sure Zomdroid is completely closed. Open the ZomboidDS app, tap Download, then Install. Finally, tap Update in the setup checklist to install mod version 0.21.0.
• New Installs: Download ZomboidDS-1.2.1.apk below and follow the User Guide.

SHA-256 (ZomboidDS-1.2.1.apk): 4f83f9d9c0992822d9eb44acfa52c07b645721febd50627acf705b24834932be

ZomboidDS 1.2.0

Moving items took too many taps (thanks for #1), so this release reworks tapping an item.

New

• Tap an item and the panel shows everything it can go to on the left: your bags and key ring, then the containers around you (the open one outlined). One tap moves it.
• Hold an item a moment and drag it onto a container's tab, or onto the other open container's items. The places it can go light up green.
• The item's main uses are buttons, taken from the game's own menu with the game's names: eat, drink, wear, read, apply bandage, reload, turn on, set alarm, ... Equip and attach only show as buttons for weapons. Buttons with › unfold the game's choices (Eat: all, half, quarter; Attach: belt or back). The rest of the game's menu is below them, in the game's order.
• Deck moved to the middle of the tabs: Inventory, Here, Deck, Status, Craft.
• Weapons is on the Deck by default now (on a new install, or if you never edited your Deck).

Update

• From 1.1.0: open the app's setup screen (outside a game), tap Download, then Install. Then Update the mod in the checklist (0.20.5), with Zomdroid closed.
• New install: download ZomboidDS-1.2.0.apk below and follow the user guide.

SHA-256 of ZomboidDS-1.2.0.apk: 62f3be9ff4933ae83dd9fe95e6fda477eebc2a52855cf5c034c1b21b5251459c

ZomboidDS 1.1.0

The Deck grows up: it's now your command deck, and "Here" gets a tab of its own.

New

• Here is its own tab: what you can do where you stand, as cards per object (fridge, sink, door, ...), updating as you walk.

• In a car, that tab becomes Vehicle: speed, engine and fuel, and the car's own menu as big buttons with the game's icons: start the engine, headlights, heater, horn, windows, doors, sleep, switch seat, get out.

• The command deck: the game's speed buttons, the time and your alarm (with a watch), and the commands you pick under Add or edit:

  • zoom in and out, search mode, flashlight, map, sit, shout, drop bag (asks first);
  • Weapons: your hotbar, slot by slot. Tap what's on your belt or back to draw it;
  • Alarm: set your watch's alarm.

  Switch them on, drag them into your order. A green dot shows a mode that's on.

Fixed

• Take all puts things in the bag you have open, like the game's Loot all (also in 1.0.1).

Update

• From 1.0.x: open the app's setup screen (outside a game), tap Download, then Install. Then Update the mod in the checklist (0.20.4), with Zomdroid closed.
• New install: download ZomboidDS-1.1.0.apk below and follow the user guide.

Your Deck starts with zoom, search mode and flashlight; add the rest under Add or edit.

SHA-256 of ZomboidDS-1.1.0.apk: 192846e96f0c53b009b62d1d5407186756294b36b38756bc753fe3947d45e058

ZomboidDS 1.0.1

A small fix, thanks to the first feedback on GitHub (#1).

Fixed

• Take all now puts everything into the container you have selected (a bag, for example), like the game's own "Loot all". It always went into your main inventory.
• In the Single layout, picking one of your bags now makes it where Take all goes, as in the Split layout.

Update

• From ZomboidDS 1.0.0: open the app's setup screen (outside a game). The checklist says version 1.0.1 is available: tap Download, then Install. The first time, Android asks you to allow installing apps from ZomboidDS: allow it, come back and tap Install again.
• New install: download ZomboidDS-1.0.1.apk below and follow the user guide.

The mod itself didn't change (still 0.19.1), so there's nothing to reinstall in Zomdroid.

SHA-256 of ZomboidDS-1.0.1.apk: eb49aa030a7c952e28fae21ce5118d0e8faedfb9347181bf7269ad038cfcfbc9

ZomboidDS 1.0.0

The first release of ZomboidDS: Project Zomboid on the top screen of your AYN Thor, your inventory, health and crafting on the bottom one.

What's in it

• Inventory: your bags and every container around you, with the game's own icons. Move items with a tap, use them through the game's own item menu. The controller's Loot button opens the container on the bottom screen.
• Deck: the game's speed buttons, and what you can do where you stand (open, sit, drink, ...).
• Status: the game's moodles, your body with its injuries, and the game's treatments.
• Craft: the recipes you can make with what's in reach, what each needs, and crafting them.
• Vehicle: speed, fuel and engine while you drive.

Install

1. You need your own copy of Project Zomboid (Build 42), running in udarmolota's Zomdroid.
2. Download ZomboidDS-1.0.0.apk below and install it on the Thor.
3. Open ZomboidDS and follow the setup checklist: it installs the mod and gets ZombieBuddy for you.

Full steps: the user guide. From now on, the app's checklist tells you when there's a new version.

Tip: if the bottom screen flickers or shows garbled patches while the game runs, install the Mr. Purple Turnip T30 driver in Zomdroid (how).

Known issues

• Build 42 only, one Zomdroid instance at a time.
• A few world-menu entries the game builds only on hover can show up greyed out in "Here".
• The vehicle dashboard is basic; a rework is planned.

ZomboidDS is free and open source (GPL-3.0), an unofficial mod not affiliated with The Indie Stone.

SHA-256 of ZomboidDS-1.0.0.apk: 708ad16dfa93f9d007e4f95954c51b1986a328949e75380bdd80216cf72bbc59