Xbox Cloud Gaming wrapper

Simple native Electron wrapper for Xbox Cloud Gaming (xbox.com/play)

Features

• Windows / Mac (intel/Apple Silicon) / Linux(?)
• Alt-Enter - Toggle fullscreen
• Escape - Minimize

Why?

• Better native experience, i.e. single window, launches full-screen, etc
• Less memory and CPU/GPU usage than vanilla Chrome, for instance
• No extensions or other junk
• Future optimisation via Electron / Chromium tweaking
• Because..

Download

• Pre-built binaries for Windows & Mac (Intel x64 and Apple Silicon arm64) are availabe under Releases
• Please be aware that these binaries are not signed so you will have to work around that.. see for Windows and Mac

Requirements

• Build - https://nodejs.org/en/

Build & Make

# install dependencies
npm install

# run app (to test before build)
npm start

# Windows - package and create installer to ./out
npm run make

# OSX - package and create zip to ./out
npm run make-mac

# OSX Apple Silicon - package and create zip to ./out
npm run make-mac-aarch

Install

• After make run the installer in ./out folder
• On Windows, the app is installed to %LocalAppData%\xbox_cloud_gaming_wrapper\ and a shortcut is added to desktop
• Uninstalled via usual Windows app uninstall process (Settings > Apps)

Todo

• Not tested on Linux
• Find ways to optimize Chromium / Electron packaging for game streaming (flags etc)
• Some UI fixes (logos, app name, etc)
• Auto updater
• App signing
• Releases