We're happy to announce that ES-DE 3.4.0-56 for Android is now available for download!
This release introduces play time tracking to show for how long games have been played, using an identical logic to how it works in Steam. This does however require that themes get updated to support this feature, so make sure to update your themes regularly in the coming days and weeks as this functionality is getting rolled out by the theme developers. The bundled Linear theme already has suppo...
2025-11-07 16:56:23 +0000 UTC
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We're happy to announce that ES-DE 3.3.0-50 for Android is now available for download!
Note that 3.3.0-50 is simply a hotfix for the 3.3.0-48 release to address two issues found in the game importer. As such the previous 3.3.0 release notes are still applicable. The issues fixed were that ES-DE would crash if the Amazon Music app was installed and the setting "Import banners or logos if available" was enabled, and that imports failed for some apps which had special characters i...
2025-07-18 11:22:14 +0000 UTC
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We're happy to announce that ES-DE 3.3.0-48 for Android is now available for download!
This release brings a built-in game importer tool that makes it possible to import native android apps and games into the androidapps, androidgames and emulators systems and launch them from inside ES-DE. This tool is accessible from the Utilities menu.
The Sega Model 3 (model3) system has also been enabled by using MAME, but be aware that emulator support for this system is not mature yet ...
2025-07-15 14:50:51 +0000 UTC
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We're happy to announce that ES-DE 3.2.0-45 for Android is now available for download!
This release brings support for themeable system status indicators showing the Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, cellular and battery status for devices where such hardware is available. There is also a themeable clock added which can be enabled from the UI settings menu. Two new game systems have been added, Vircon32 Virtual Console (vircon32) and Sega Mark III (mark3). Additionally there is support for a lot o...
2025-04-04 16:07:30 +0000 UTC
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We're happy to announce that ES-DE 3.1.1-39 for Android is now available for download!
This release adds translations for German, Korean, Dutch and Catalan, reduces the application memory footprint, enables a number of new emulators and fixes numerous bugs.
The default audio driver has been changed from AAudio to OpenSL ES which should decrease audio latency on many devices. There is however a new menu entry in the Sound settings menu that makes it possible to easily revert t...
2024-12-13 17:14:02 +0000 UTC
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Although most people have no issues receiving the update emails we send out when making new releases, there's still a small minority who don't receive these emails correctly. It seems like they mostly end up in the spam folder and on some services like Gmail these emails get automatically deleted after a number of days.
For this reason we have created a self-service tool where you can resend the latest update email to yourself anytime you want. You can find this tool here:
2024-10-27 13:04:21 +0000 UTC
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Hi!
We're happy to announce that ES-DE 3.1.0-32 for Android is now available for download!
This release brings full localization support and includes translations to ten new languages. These are Spanish (Spain), French, Italian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Romanian, Russian, Swedish, Japanese and Simplified Chinese. More languages will follow in future releases.
Note that theme translations is an ongoing work and it's a long term goal to have all themes translated to a...
2024-09-13 17:30:48 +0000 UTC
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Hi!
We're happy to announce that ES-DE 3.0.3-26 for Android is now available for download!
This release enables a lot of new systems which brings Android much closer to the ES-DE desktop ports as far as system support is concerned. It also brings experimental support for setting ES-DE as the Android home app, introduces some new theme engine functionality and fixes a couple of bugs.
See the 2024-06-14 16:36:31 +0000 UTC
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Hi!
I'm happy to announce that ES-DE 3.0.2-21 for Android is now available for download!
This release improves scraping speed under some circumstances, adds experimental support for launching native Android apps and games, adds support for a couple of new emulators such as Lime3DS and Yaba Sanshiro 2, and brings a number of additional minor improvements.
See the Chang...
2024-05-13 16:10:34 +0000 UTC
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Hi everyone!
As we have received some questions about the way future ES-DE updates will be distributed we thought it would be a good idea to post about it to clarify the situation.
The way Patreon works is that if you pay for a membership and then change it to a free membership you'll get one month of access to all content. After this month has passed you'll not be able to access any locked posts.
This is the reason that ES-DE updates are distributed via email. Whenever we m...
2024-04-07 10:05:44 +0000 UTC
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Our theme developers have been hard at work, and three new high-quality themes have just been published.
The first one is Retro Mega (Revisited) by ant, which is a port of the Retro Mega theme for the Pegasus frontend, originally created by djfumberger.
The second theme is Slick (Remixed) by Weestuarty...
2024-04-02 15:50:40 +0000 UTC
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Hi!
We wish to thank everyone that participated in the device compatibility survey, we received 222 responses which we think was a very good outcome! A number of new devices were added to the compatibility list, which you can find here:
https://gitlab.com/es-de/emulationstation-de/-/blob/master/ANDROID.md?ref_type=heads#device-compatibility...
2024-03-28 16:07:28 +0000 UTC
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Hi!
We have started to build an Android device compatibility database to make it possible for people that want to run ES-DE to see whether their device is supported, and/or if it has any known issues. You can find it here:
https://gitlab.com/es-de/emulationstation-de/-/blob/master/ANDROID.md?ref_type=heads#device-compatibility
Due ...
2024-03-23 17:07:03 +0000 UTC
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Hi everyone!
I'm happy to announce that ES-DE 3.0.1-19 for Android is now available for download!
This release adds support for Android 10, removes support for the Yuzu emulator and includes a number of additional minor improvements and bug fixes.
Although we understand that some of you will not be happy with Yuzu getting removed it simply isn't feasible to keep supporting this emulator. That project simply went too far, there is really no other way to put it. We have decide...
2024-03-16 13:15:30 +0000 UTC
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Hi everyone!
I'm happy to announce that ES-DE 3.0.0-17 for Android is now available for download!
Download link:
ES-DE_3.0.0-17.apk
This is the MD5 hash in case you want to verify the file integrity:
7f7dd3e625484628165b96bbcc40bbd9
If you run into any issues I recommend joining our Discord server to get support:
2024-03-04 16:24:39 +0000 UTC
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Thanks a lot for supporting ES-DE, here is the download link to the APK:
ES-DE_3.0.0-15.apk
2024-02-28 15:49:15 +0000 UTC
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