📢 Version v0.1.1 (alpha) - New on-screen controls, mods, shader cache

🛑Your old on-screen layout from v0.1.0 is not carried over: after the update you start with the new default layout. Don't forget to backup your saves before updating.🛑

ℹ️ ValDroid was tested with Valheim 1.0.15, and that is where it works best — especially on Mali GPUs.

🙏 Special thanks

To all the testers who didn't spare their time testing the launcher — and especially to our Mali testers, whose logs are slowly teaching us how these GPUs behave! 💛

☕ Honest moment: ValDroid stays free, but coffee (and rent) doesn't. If the new version makes your Viking life a little better, you can buy me a coffee on Ko-fi. Thank you! 🪓

🆕 What's new

Main features

✅ New on-screen controls — a new controls system with a full editor: buttons (round or square, outline / filled / glass, your own pictures, toggle buttons, several keys on one button), d-pad, sticks, WASD stick, mouse stick, touchpad, scroll bar for the mouse wheel and a radial menu.
✅ Two ready-made layouts — Gamepad (the default: Valheim's own gamepad interface handles inventory, building and menus) and Keyboard and touchpad. Switch between them in the editor under Layouts.
✅ Controls editor — tap an element to change it, long-press an empty spot to add one, grid snapping, a screenshot as background to place buttons against. Layouts are saved per instance and can be exported and imported as a .zip.
✅ Mods — a new Mods screen in the side menu: turn on Mod support (BepInEx) for an instance, install mods from a .zip, switch them on and off, delete them. Needs Native ARM64 Mono. Not every mod works: very old mods may load and do nothing. Experimental.

Changed

✅ Shader cache — compiled shaders are kept on the phone, so a new enemy or effect stutters only the very first time you see it, not in every session. On by default; off by default on Mali GPUs (see Known issues). Settings → Video → Shader cache.
✅ Render resolution — lowest by default; the launch log shows what is actually applied.

Fixed

✅ Mali: the circles (moiré) on ground and object textures are gone.
✅ If Native ARM64 Mono could not start and the game fell back to emulated Mono, the launcher now tells you once.
✅ The downloaded game zip is no longer kept twice, freeing several GB.
✅ Bug reports include more information for us.

📢 Patch v0.1.1v2

✅ Steam Cloud now syncs Valheim 1.0 worlds in both directions. No more "bad version" after downloading a world, and your phone's copy is kept as a backup when you replace it.
✅ Fixed the launcher closing before the game when ValDroid is installed on an SD card.
✅ More useful bug reports: device, install location, game version and a launcher log are now included.
✅ The old Mods tab is gone from Steam Downloads (from RimDroid). Valheim mods go through Mods in the side menu.

Known issues

⚠️ On some Mali GPUs (e.g. Mali-G615) the ground renders black. We are working on it — if you see this, please send a report with Report a bug.
⚠️ On Mali, turning the Shader cache on can make the water black; leave it off there for now.

⚠️ Reminder
ValDroid is only a launcher. To run the game, you need the Linux version of the game files — for example, the game bought on Steam.

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