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Tessera 0.3.0 (alpha)

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v0.3.0
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Alpha. Expect rough edges: much of it has only been tried on one or two phones.

What's new

  • Game controls. Turn them on from a game's side menu (swipe in from the edge): a thumb stick that holds W, A, S and D, a look area for mouse-look, and buttons that hold Fire, Run, Jump and Reload. First-person games that expect a keyboard and mouse now play by touch. The Keys page gains Enter, which game menus want.
  • GPU: antialiased OpenGL windows no longer crash. A bug in Mesa's Zink crashed apps asking for antialiasing on their first frame (SFML games such as AntWare from Flathub). Tessera's driver carries the fix.
  • Software OpenGL on Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 and newer. Apps drawing without the GPU died of "illegal instruction": LLVM used SVE instructions these cores have but Android leaves off. Fixed in PRoot and chroot mode.
  • Sound no longer stutters in games. Apps asking for a small audio buffer (OpenAL games) played a gap of silence every 85 ms; every app now gets a 120 ms buffer.
  • Flathub apps per engine. PRoot and chroot mode each have their own Linux system. A Flathub app installed in one now offers Install in the other, instead of failing to start.
  • The task manager sees everything Tessera runs, its own X servers and root helpers included, even ones left over from an earlier run, and only samples while it's on screen.
  • Fixes for runaway processes: a helper could spin at full CPU forever after a process it was reading exited, and root helpers could outlive the app. Both are gone.
  • Tapping a home screen icon no longer stacks another copy of the launcher.
  • The README now covers Tessera as a full Linux shell, beside Termux, AnLinux and Andronix.

Install

Download tessera-v0.3.0.apk below and open it. Requires Android 7 or newer, arm64. It updates 0.2.0 in place, keeping your Linux systems and apps. With Obtainium, add this repository's URL.

Known limits

  • Tested on a Xiaomi 13 Ultra (Android 16, Magisk).
  • Game controls have one layout for now, made for first-person games.
  • Flathub installs have failed on a Huawei phone (Android 10, PRoot); not yet diagnosed.
  • See ROADMAP.md for what's done and what's next.

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