📢 Version v0.1.7 - Gamepad support, haptic feedback buttons, better low-RAM support

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RimDroid 0.1.7 — Beta

⚠️ This is a beta. RimWorld runs well on some devices (mostly recent, powerful Snapdragon/Adreno and some Dimensity/Mali phones) and not yet on others. We're working day and night to widen the list of supported devices — this release is a checkpoint, not the finish line.

✅ Device compatibility (so far — it's device-by-device, not by GPU brand)
Compatibility right now depends on the specific phone (GPU + driver + kernel), not just "Adreno vs Mali" — some Mali phones run great, others don't yet. We're still mapping it out, so treat this as a living list.

Works:

• Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra (Adreno 830)
• Lenovo Legion Y700 (Adreno 730)
• Realme P4x (Mali)

Loads, but hits the colonists/crash bug (a reboot often helps — see below):

• Poco X7 (Mali) — loads, but colonists can come up missing
• Poco F5 (Adreno) — boots now (startup black screen fixed), but can still crash

Doesn't start yet:

• Infinix Note 50s 5G (Mali-G615) and similar — need the software renderer we're still building

🆕 What's new in 0.1.7 (beta)

✅ Physical gamepad support — sticks, buttons, triggers, with auto-hide of the
on-screen controls when a controller connects, plus a button remapper for
controllers with swapped buttons.
✅ Display resolution fix — no more tiny / doubled / stretched picture on some devices.
✅ Haptic feedback — buttons can vibrate now; per-instance on/off toggle.
✅ Hide/show controls — a "V" button to toggle the on-screen overlay on the fly.
✅ Steadier on low-RAM phones — the game's memory now scales to your device, cutting
out-of-memory crashes on weaker hardware.
(Plus everything from earlier: mods via Harmony 2.2.2, on-screen controls editor,
Steam in-app downloads, per-instance settings.)

🔄 Temporary workaround for some issues, like missing colonists
Several of these problems depend on how the phone's memory happens to be laid out at launch, and a phone restart reshuffles it. If the game crashes or colonists go missing:

• Restart your phone, then launch again. Maybe the save was corrupted - make a new save.
• If it still fails, restart once more (a second reboot sometimes does it).
  It's a dice-roll, not a cure — but it often lands the game in a working state.

🛠️ What we're working on next

• Fixing the core emulation bug behind the crashes & save corruption (the #1 issue above).
• In-game sound.

🙏 Help us
If the game doesn't work for you, please turn on Debug, reproduce, then Export logs and send them — your logs are exactly how we widen device support. Tell us your phone model + GPU.

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

⚠️ 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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