📢 Version v0.2.8 - Up to 2× faster on 1.6, performance bar, better typing

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RimDroid 0.2.8

⚠️ RimDroid is still in beta. Device compatibility and performance vary, especially with large colonies, DLC, and heavy mod lists.

RimDroid is made by one person in evenings and weekends. There are no ads and no paywall. If the launcher gave you a colony in your pocket, a coffee on Ko-Fi helps me keep going, so your phone gets fixed faster. Thank you!

🆕 What's new

✅ Faster with Native ARM64 Mono (RimWorld 1.6)

Before Native ARM64 Mono, the emulator had to run in a strict, slow mode to keep the game's own code safe. Now that this code runs directly on your phone's processor, that mode isn't needed anymore, and it is switched off whenever Native ARM64 Mono is on.

• In a new colony you'll mostly see higher FPS: on our test phone (Galaxy S25, same save) game speed 3 went from 57 to about 130 FPS.
• In a big late-game colony that was already running at its limit, the boost goes into game speed instead: higher TPS, so speed 2 and 3 keep up better.
• How much you gain depends on your phone.
• RimWorld 1.5, and 1.6 with Native ARM64 Mono off, work exactly as before.

✅ Performance bar

Settings → Frame rate → In-game display: Off, FPS or Full info.

• FPS is the familiar counter in the top-left corner.
• Full info shows a bar at the top with GPU and CPU load, memory, power draw, temperature and an FPS graph. Handy to see what slows your game down.
• If you had the FPS counter on, it stays on.

✅ Easier on-screen controls editor

• The editor's buttons are now a small row at the bottom of the screen, so they no longer hide the top row of the layout you are editing.
• New Grid: on / off button: buttons follow your finger and land on the nearest grid point when you let go, so they line up evenly.

Fixes

• Every on-screen button works in RimWorld 1.6. Buttons bound to H, R, B, L, Backspace, comma, period and most other keys did nothing in 1.6, including some buttons of the default layout.
• Typing with the phone keyboard. With Samsung Keyboard and others with predictions on, a typed name could get lost and only Backspace and Enter reached the game. Letters now arrive as you type. Suggestions and autocorrect are off while you type, on purpose. For now typing works with Latin letters only.
• The download is about 4 MB smaller: unused leftovers were removed from the bundled libraries.

Also in the app:

CJK fonts (Chinese / Japanese / Korean) - special RimDroidCJK mod.

Before you update

Back up your saves: side menu → Export saves. The faster mode is new, and a backup costs nothing.

Sᴜʙsᴄʀɪʙᴇ If you want to stay up to date with changes, tips, and useful tweaks, feel free to join our RimDroid X - or Reddit.

⚠️ Reminder
Rimdroid is only a launcher.
To run the game, you still need the actual game files (Linux version), which you must obtain yourself - for example, by purchasing the game on Steam/GOG.

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