Lepton from Valve to run Android games on Linux is now open source

25 days ago by inari to c/linuxphones

Valve have officially opened up the source code for Lepton, their compatibility layer to run Android games on Linux for the Steam Frame.

CubitOom 22 points 25 days ago

What are the chances this can be used to run android apps on Linux phones?

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n01getsout 13 points 25 days ago

Might be possible, but...

Lepton disables various Android services that are not required to run games possibly breaking compatibility with some applications.

Lepton is not designed for general Android use, instead opting to keep the bare minimum functionality required to launch into games.

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potatoguy 5 points 25 days ago

Checking the patches on their repo, it seems it will not be very useful for running bank apps and that kind of stuff on waydroid, maybe if they publish a signed image with all the patches for faking a real android environment, but the patches look like they're fixing only for their hardware/stack.

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lemmyng 6 points 25 days ago

...so like Waydroid?

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curbstickle 17 points 25 days ago

Lepton is a waydroid fork.

So yes, both are.

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INeedMana 1 point 24 days ago

Ah. Another "rebranding theft"

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curbstickle 6 points 24 days ago

No.

Lepton is quite far from waydroid. Significant architectural changes, like Lepton is userspace only, waydroid runs a shared virt while Lepton is per app containers, etc.

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Natanael 4 points 24 days ago

Valve tends to be good about upstreaming, etc. The original projects aren't losing out

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CubitOom 9 points 25 days ago

It's nice to have options.

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mnemonicmonkeys 1 point 25 days ago

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vogi 15 points 25 days ago

This seems rather cool!
on an unrelated note: why do companies keep buying different domains instead of reusing old trusted ones?
git.steampowered.com or git.valvesoftware.com would be perfect but they are using https://gitlab.steamos.cloud/ now?
If I only saw the domain I would never expect it to be officially by valve...

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altkey 7 points 25 days ago

It reads like a cheaper scam, right. I think there is something to make it not about them or steam alone, from both the open source and business perspective. But there are TLDs more reputable and relevant to said project than .cloud at least.

P.S. And do they use Anubis? It's like the biggest project I saw using it, and without any paid customization too.

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erebion 6 points 25 days ago

If anyone has a conparison on how this fork compares to Waydroid: Link pls, I'd like reading it

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mnemonicmonkeys 3 points 25 days ago

The linked article gives a basic rundown already

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