android-questions

[karmic mesa]

I've also been experiencing sensitivity issues while playing the game using the touch screen... I'm currently using a flagship device which shouldn't be lacking in any way when it comes to touchscreen sensitivity... The way I usually get around it though is by plugging in a controller... But not everyone has a controller.

In fact, this phone is still brand new... I bought it less than 2 weeks ago

[heavy flame]

which controller are you using?

[pulsar sedge]

When will journey and flower be available on android?

[pallid wraith]

I don't know but this channel is for Sky related questions

[spiral walrus]

Whyyyy whyyu tgc can't help me unlink

And block contact ?? I dont see contact messenger

[pulsar sedge]

Okk

[stoic beacon]

is this normal?

[winged vector]

what is the best android phone to play sky? is it the new xiaomi 11?

[high berry]

For me yes sometimes I accidentally tap that and says that

[high berry]

A phone with compatible specs for the game

My phone is xiaomi 10 tho, I mean its compatible but the processor isnt that good and I tend crashes for my whole game experience

[sonic stream]

So I have a fairly decent phone, a Samsung Galaxy A51, Android 10, Octa-core 2.3GHz CPU, Mali-G72 GPU, 4GB RAM, but I'm getting lots of frame drops, even with the lowest possible GFX settings. I close all other applications before running Sky. Is there some trick I'm missing? I don't want to be eaten by krill any more!

[karmic mesa]

@heavy flame the Dualshock 3 (PlayStation 3) and Razer Kishi

[karmic mesa]

#android-questions message

[sonic stream]

MUCH better now, thank you!

[karmic mesa]

[dire herald]

I have a question from a friend of mine(as she doesn't have discord)

Does the oppo A7 support sky?
But idk the specs or where to search for it

[fast hearth]

Yesz, it can I think

[dire herald]

Odd
She said she couldn't find it in the app store

[fast hearth]

Hmm odd indeed

[karmic mesa]

oof

All right so... The hardware physically is capable of starting the game... But you're not going to get anywhere fast. If you could even get the game to run, it will run so poorly that your phone may crash.

[dire herald]

;-; ouch

[karmic mesa]

Yes the Adreno 506 (the GPU of that phone) is not strong enough in any way to play sky... The only reason it could attempt is because in some phones they have the proper drivers...

[dire herald]

Okay thanks for the info
Time to break the sad news to my friend

[karmic mesa]

Yeah, sorry about that

[fast hearth]

Can you tell me about my phone? LG G6

[karmic mesa]

That phone should do all right.

It may overheat

[fast hearth]

not surprised

[karmic mesa]

To put it in perspective the previous phone I just analyzed has a 3D Mark score of about 700... Your phone should have a 3D Mark score of about 3,000

Your phone has the same graphics as the Samsung Galaxy S7... So I actually have in-person experience with playing sky on that GPU

[dire herald]

What about the oppo a3s?
(Another question from my friend earlier)

[karmic mesa]

It's literally got the same internals... Uhh... Same answer

Both phones have the Snapdragon 450, which just isn't suited for sky

And in some cases it even has less ram

[dire herald]

Weird cuz I checked the box of my phone I'm using to play sky and it's an oppo a3s

[karmic mesa]

Do you have performance issues?

[dire herald]

Only some crashes in maps like wasteland but it's not that much of a problem to me anymore as I restart the game everytime I enter a new area

Other than that it's actually running well (aside from the potato graphics ofc)

[karmic mesa]

That's actually good news...

My A20 it's supposedly 10% faster graphically than your phone and I do have small performance issues with it

Some places in the golden wasteland I would drop to 2 to 5 FPS

But it never crashed

[dire herald]

Ah I see

[karmic mesa]

https://youtu.be/jCjjkXdShhY

[dire herald]

But I'm still confused as to why the oppo a3s can withstand sky compared to the oppo A7
As u mentioned earlier, that both phones has the same internals
And having the oppo a3s with less ram

[karmic mesa]

Things get confusing when dealing with the low-end mid-range

[dire herald]

Agreed ;-;

[karmic mesa]

It could have a 32-bit operating system or the wrong Vulkan drivers.

Also I miss took the adreno 506 for the 505...

[dire herald]

That's alright
We all tend to be mistaken once in a while

[dire herald]

Most probably
But how do we check whether it runs on 32- bit or 64- bit ?

[karmic mesa]

There's an app available on the play store that can check. It's called "64-bit checker"

[dire herald]

Okay

[dire herald]

I will be able to download it in the morning cuz the wifi got turned off ;-;

[karmic mesa]

Ah

[dire herald]

But my friend on the other hand, says her oppo A7 runs on 64

[karmic mesa]

It's a very very very small application of about 1.2 MB

Oh yeah

#android-questions message

Try that

[cold knot]

When will u update sky bugs of children??????

[dire herald]

Didn't work

[karmic mesa]

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.realtechvr.glview

Could you show me what that app says?

All I want to see is this part

[dire herald]

No wonder it couldn't install sky

[karmic mesa]

There it is

Power VR???

Is there more than one version of that phone?

[dire herald]

Most probably?

[karmic mesa]

Because it was supposed to have the Adreno 506

If it was truly the oppo A7

[dire herald]

Either that or the phone is a knock off

[karmic mesa]

The opengl drivers are correct... 3.2 is the latest that any phone has

It doesn't just have the wrong Vulkan drivers it doesn't have any Vulkan drivers at all

Well that explains it then

[dire herald]

Apparently so

Wait a minute.....
These specs actually look familiar..

I'm guessing the phone my friend currently has is probably the oppo A12

Or something close to it

[karmic mesa]

I mean it adds up

I finally got away from my A20

I have this phone now

[dire herald]

*cries in potato a3s

[karmic mesa]

I started there my friend

[fast hearth]

not buying oneplus
have i taught you nothing 😔

[meager saffron]

can't log in my Facebook account into sky

it loops loading

how do i fix it?

[karmic elk]

*me laughing people asking for question's about compatibility issues

If you have compatibility issues you may want to know min spec you should run.
-Android 8.0 Oreo or higher
-ARM 64bit with Neon
-At leas 1.5gb RAM
-OpenGLES 3.1 Extension Pack
-Vulkan Version 1.0.3 or higher
-Vulkan Level 0 or higher
-up to 3gb storage to download and install all levels

The following GPUs are capable of 60fps, this list is not exhaustive:
+Adreno 540
+Adreno 630
+Adreno 640
+Adreno 650
+Mali-G76
+Mali-G77
*some versions are not 60fps capable

This game is GPU intensive so you need a better GPU for max experience

[karmic elk]

If you don't know what actually specs you are running check Google

GSMareana is a good source of the checking phone specs website

[rigid skiff]

Hello!~ I have a question.. Can you play sky with the same account on different devices? I mainly play sky on my android phone but I also have an ios apple device that I want to play on. If I connect/recover my account from my android to ios, will my progress be lost on my android phone?

[sharp spoke]

You can play on both, I do that too. If your account is linked to google you can recover it on your ios device too just by logging in with that email there. The only thing you can't do, is playing in the same account, the same exact time on both of the devices. You will get an error message if you try that. Your progress won't be lost.

[rigid skiff]

Yay! Thank you! I will try now

I did it! It worked! I was so nervous, Thank you!!

[sharp spoke]

You're welcome Glad it worked, it's really useful for me to have it on tablet for me when I'm home to play ,and on phone too when i don't have the chance to chose the comfier option enjoy

[karmic mesa]

I went with Samsung because of features that I'm familiar with. Most particularly, the Samsung DeX... I've purchased a dock that I can put my phone in and it displays on the TV in a desktop fashion. The dock has several USB 3.1 ports and supplies power to the phone. So I can play sky on my TV like a console without the hassle of the x86 build.

[fast hearth]

yeah fair
the DeX is sick

[karmic mesa]

And because I got a phone with the sd865... It should be completely lag free

[languid glade]

Dex is only on the S and Note series phone right?

[karmic mesa]

Maybe...

It does work... I got the dock today

[languid glade]

Only if they didn't have Exynos

[karmic mesa]

Sad

Mine is Snapdragon

[languid glade]

Yea that's 🔥

[languid glade]

Ik lol it's Snapdragon in the US and Exynos everywhere else

That's a great combo tho

[karmic mesa]

Actually

The S20 FE 5G is Snapdragon everywhere

[fast hearth]

good on samsung then

[languid glade]

Oooo Didn't knew there was a separate 5g model too

[karmic mesa]

Yup

Same with the 4G variant... Exynos everywhere

[zenith folio]

Is there a way you can check the things for the Samsung galaxy a21s?

[fast hearth]

here! you can find these online!

[zenith folio]

Thank smuou so much qwq

[fast hearth]

happy to help! 😄

[zenith folio]

How does the processor work? My phone works on Octa-core

[fast hearth]

i have no idea honestly

[zenith folio]

I'm trying to figure out why my phone keeps crashing constantly when playing the game

[fast hearth]

I suspect it might be your ram...

[zenith folio]

Is there a way that it can be expanded?

[fast hearth]

-Android 8.0 Oreo or higher
-ARM 64bit with Neon
-At leas 1.5gb RAM
-OpenGLES 3.1 Extension Pack
-Vulkan Version 1.0.3 or higher
-Vulkan Level 0 or higher
-up to 3gb storage to download and install all levels

i dont think so

[zenith folio]

No clue what Vulkan is

[fast hearth]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laKgJEfSuDk&ab_channel=HardReset.Info > to see if your ram or required storage is enough

i dunno how to see how good the processor is as well... might need the pros to answer that

[karmic elk]

Vulkan is a rendering API

And if you phone doesn't support OpenGL the Vulkan is the backup

[cold knot]

Mighty game dev. WHEN WILL YOU FIX YOUR ISSUES IN GAME BY UPDATE??????????????????????????

[cold knot]

Mighty game dev. WHEN WILL YOU FIX YOUR ISSUES IN GAME BY UPDATE??????????????????????????

Mighty game dev. WHEN WILL YOU FIX YOUR ISSUES IN GAME BY UPDATE??????????????????????????

Mighty game dev. WHEN WILL YOU FIX YOUR ISSUES IN GAME BY UPDATE??????????????????????????

Mighty game dev. WHEN WILL YOU FIX YOUR ISSUES IN GAME BY UPDATE??????????????????????????

[boreal tapir]

Do not spam please, the Devs are working on it. I recommend you keep an eye out on #news regarding any patch update they'll release.

[cold knot]

thnx

[rigid egret]

!ts

[upper sail]

The next Traveling Spirit is scheduled to arrive on January 21 at 00:00 Pacific Time (UTC -8:00)
You can read how Traveling Spirits work here: http://bit.ly/TravelingSpirits

[karmic mesa]

There's a slight issue with that... Every smartphone supports OpenGL ES of some kind... OpenGL ES was the standard rendering API for Android smartphones from the beginning and to ensure cross-compatibility it remains the default rendering API. Vulkan was added around 2016 to flagships and slowly made its way to everyday devices.

[karmic elk]

[karmic mesa]

It would be a sad sad day to have a smartphone that didn't support OpenGL ES...

99% of the applications in the play store would be incompatible

[sleek torrent]

Oh

That's very bold is it exaggerated or is it true?!!

[karmic mesa]

It is true

[restive scroll]

is this one good enough?

[karmic mesa]

It should be "good enough" in fact it should play the game relatively okay... No you may run into slow downs and lag if you have other things running on the device.

[teal marsh]

Does anyone know any good apps for screen recording? I was using XRecorder before but now it's not recording the in-game audio and I don't know why.

[fast hearth]

AZ Screen Recorder or your device's built-in one

if your phone doesn't support internal audio, hook up a headphone splitter to your headphone jack and then an aux cord to both ends of the headphone splitter

[fast hearth]

I still won't advise you to consider the tablet if Sky is the main purpose.. My Snapdragon 670 tablet fps meter literally drops to 15-18 fps when I'm doing a speed run for more than half an hour or so

It's better to get the S series lineup of tablets (excluding Tab S6 lite) if Sky is ur primary concern

[restive scroll]

S series?

ohh

[fast hearth]

Galaxy Tab S4/S6/S7/S7+

[restive scroll]

sky isn't primary

but which tablet would you recommend as primary?

[fast hearth]

All the tablets I mentioned above are pretty solid in their specs, but yea get the S7 if you can stretch the budget

Honestly other games like PUBG or COD can run fine but games like Sky and Genshin Impact literally takes a toll on 600 series processors

Or you can get the iPad 6th Gen (Sorry for going out of Android).. It's quite cheap than the S series tablets but the games would run very smooth

[livid stag]

Ok so is it against the rules to play Sky on a custom android device? Like you have a computer with an android dual boot.

One that runs android x86 project and translates arm64 into that compatible with x64 processors. Like a Mac Rosetta but in reverse

[tame comet]

That device will not pass CTS, so the game shouldn't launch. But yes, only Play Protect certified devices will be able to install the game through the play store. Getting the game through other means than the play store or apple's store is against the eula.

[livid stag]

Oh ok

That question has bothered me for days ngl

[fast hearth]

I got it working on mine (using an app sourced from the Play Store, don't worry)

[fast hearth]

use BlissOS, not regular android-x86

[karmic mesa]

You just have to make sure that your computer actually supports Vulkan... (My mistake)

[fast hearth]

I don't think my secondary computer supports all the Vulkan extensions needed actually

[karmic mesa]

Yeah... That's probably it

My laptop had a Vulkan driver... But I couldn't get any application that actually utilized Vulkan to run

[fast hearth]

aren't you in that range where Linux supports Vulkan for your hardware but Windows doesn't?

[karmic mesa]

Yeah

[real geyser]

How can we reduce crashing when going into vault?

I’m tryna help a fren ;-;

[slender yacht]

if you're frequently crashing when going somewhere, unfortunately there's not much you can do to avoid it, but try lowering the game resolution, closing any other apps that could be running in the background, and letting the device cool down if it's overheating

also, it might be a good idea to report frequent crashes in #report-a-live-bug

[lapis zinc]

hey, im not super active and this isnt a question relating to me specifically, but a friend of mine with the same version of android that i have (9) cant. download sky. it says its incompatible with her device. does anyone maybe have any insight to that? thank you !!

id like to add, with further research, according to the wikia her phone does meet the specs, so theres no visible reason why she shouldnt be good to download mfndm

[livid stag]

The only thing I can think of is if her device is 32-bit. I don’t know if android 9 has a 32-bit variant though.

[lapis zinc]

i dont either which is why im kinda bugged. thank you for your insight, i do appreciate it. ill look and see if 9 has a 32 bit version

i looked up how to tell the bit version and it said "yea ur kernel version will have x64 in it if not then its a 32 bit version" and . my kernel version doesnt have that i mshsns . im still able to run sky perfectly too. so ill dig some more myself,

[kind kayak]

android version doesn't determine if the device is 32 or 64 bit. there are plenty of android 10 phones that are 32 bit, generally because it's cheaper to make 32 bit phones

[lapis zinc]

how,, do we tell that. bc i know my phone doesnt have a 64 in the kernel version and again sky runs. just fine

[kind kayak]

what's the name of your device?

[lapis zinc]

all ive been able to find is "if theres a 64 in your kernel version its a 64 bit, if not its 32"

[karmic mesa]

[lapis zinc]

samsung galaxy s8 . let me find my beta bug report to be sure

[karmic mesa]

What device does your friend have?

[kind kayak]

pretty sure the s series is 64 bit

[lapis zinc]

s8+

yhhh

let me ask her

she said ita a j7

i have No clue what that is. but.

[karmic mesa]

That may be true... However there is an easier way of finding it... Simply check which abi's your device supports... Or simply download "64-bit checker" from the Play store

[kind kayak]

j7 is 32 bit

[lapis zinc]

aw damb,

[karmic mesa]

Yeah

[lapis zinc]

that womps real bad

[karmic mesa]

On top of that the GPU wouldn't be able to handle Sky anyway

[lapis zinc]

thank you guys for your help, i really appreciate it :]

[karmic mesa]

What were the J series even designed for???

[kind kayak]

cheap phone?

[karmic mesa]

My guess is that they were designed to be part of prepaid plans that you just pick up at Walmart

[kind kayak]

they're like, 100 usd

[karmic mesa]

Exactly

Apparently the j stands for joy

XD

[kind kayak]

no joy if i can't play sky on it

#beta-discussion message
so... the headphones are probably not coming to android any time soon, if at all. sads

[karmic mesa]

It's a very complicated process to undergo... And I think they're currently preoccupied with the switch release

[kind kayak]

yeah. although the way this is worded makes me think they aren't coming at all anymore.

welp, i don't know enough about androids to know the work arounds for external audio detection

[karmic mesa]

There's ways around it... Like, I don't know... a toggle in the settings

Isn't they're only practical purpose to mute sky?

[tame comet]

I wouldn't mind wearing headphones to show I'm listening to music or something. A toggle in settings?

[kind kayak]

i'd like to control the volume of the in game sound one day a slider? there's got to be enough room in the settings for something like that

[tame comet]

Turn the toggle, boom headphones on and acts like ios feature

Keep it in both versions, better than playing a muted audio track for instrument play.

[karmic mesa]

_>

[keen jewel]

This is the third time I try to relieved the memories, go to the end and nothing happens and i need to do it again

Someone knows what's happening?

[rare sphinx]

Try to turn your connection off and wait for a few sec, it should continue working then turn you connection on again

[warm walrus]

Why the season of dreams turn to nightmare

We need update asap plz

[dark pumice]

They announced a patch update that's coming next week in #known-issues so please be patient a little longer

[lone coral]

Good day, I have a question. So I've read the pinned message telling that the following GPUs that are capable in 60 fps, ranging from +Adreno 540 to +Adreno 650. My GPU is Adreno 616. Does it mean my phone is capable in 60 fps?

[karmic mesa]

No

The first number is the generation

[lone coral]

Ah, I see

[karmic mesa]

But your GPU should do just fine at 30... It'll just get hot

[lone coral]

I wish I can play at crisply smooth 60 fps, guess I can't. Thanks.

[karmic mesa]

Yeah... Your phone would have difficulties playing at 60fps... Even if it was uncapped you wouldn't hit it

[steep drift]

Hiiii, I got a new phone and would like to play sky on both devices with the same account. My old phone is an iPhone, but my new one is android. Is this possible?

[fast hearth]

yup

sign in to Google on your iOS device

[fast hearth]

you'd have to talk to customer support about that

[prisma iris]

that's one of the reasons why you should also use more than one linking method and save your Sky ID just in case

regardless of how you saved your account, support will hopefully be able to help you out!

[gloomy python]

heyy

is it possible to download Sky with an Android 7?

cuz my friend has that LOL

[tame comet]

Wait, the 616 can't handle 60 fps mode but my fun workaround to get 60 fps on my 615 made it hit 60 fps reliably?

Well... Reliably if all background tasks are not running...

[languid glade]

how'd you do that on 615?

I might aswell try too
My mali g72 mp12 is probably faster then 615

[tame comet]

It's a workaround that requires modifying your phone. Something I cannot talk about how here.

[languid glade]

O

Then nvm can't do anything on a Huawei

[tame comet]

It might also help having a custom kernel with higher GPU frequencies toggled on. by default, the 615 caps at 430Mhz and I clocked mine up to 670Mhz.

[languid glade]

Hmm yes I tried a custom kernel on my poco F1
It sure helped in keeping the frame rate above 53 at all times
On stock it dipped to 45 in vault and in graveyard

[fast hearth]

hey people on a budget of less than $200
the Poco M3 looks alright
that is all

[spring shell]

Do you have it on the android A10E

[fast hearth]

the A10E is pretty weak isn't it?

[spring shell]

idk it’s my friends

[tame comet]

A10E is 32 bit

[fast hearth]

that too

[tame bramble]

Excuse me, I have one question about the recovery code.. how to use it?😅

Sky ID*

[sharp spoke]

If you save your recovery code, and you lose your account for some reason, telling the code to Customer Support will help them to give u back your acc. I suggest you to link your account to game center (ios) and/or Google (ios and android) so you can save your progress, and transfer your account in case you change devices.

[dire herald]

A question from a friend
They're planning on buying the xiaomi redmi 9T
But they wanna know if it's compatible for sky

[stone linden]

whats the best android devices to play sky on?

[thorn onyx]

They should check the minimum requirements in the pins of this channel

[strong knoll]

The game is very nice, but there is something I want to ask, will there be Turkish language support for this game?

[fast hearth]

I don't know if that's already supported or not, but Sky uses whatever your device language is set to

[strong knoll]

Thank you for the answer

[magic charm]

is there a way to mute the game in a not-samsung phone?

[fast hearth]

Unfortunately not really...

[magic charm]

it's so disappointing

i've been waiting for more than a year now and it's still not in the game

and it's so stupid because it's so easy to just put a mute button/volume control in the game, it's just that they don't want to make that for some reason

by easy i mean it isn't too complicated

[fast hearth]

There probably is a reason

I can suggest you to play in background a silent track

Like a track with no sounds.

It counts as external audio

So the in-game music (only the music) should stop

[fast hearth]

found the iOS user

Anyways often we think that something is easy to make but maybe developing some aspects isn't that easy

[fast hearth]

Hey chill. I play on both.

yeah I'm saying even that kind of thing isn't supported in Android though

Only because I didn't set a role. That's rude.

actually I sent the message before I checked the role haha

Sometimes for me works

That's why

if it does, it's placebo with you being in a relatively quiet area already

The Android version doesn't support it

[fast hearth]

I'm sorry. But this wouldn't be the first time someone points me out for this reason

And it's upsetting

I wasn't trying to insult you for it

Cause I just want to help.

Yeah I'm sorry

The point I'm making is that Android doesn't have that feature, that's all

My apologies

Nono it's also my fault lol

Sorry that this tip can't help

I mean, regardless, it's still bizarre to me that there isn't a volume slider

Never questioned it tbh Shah I normally play in silent mode or listening to music

like, I cannot wrap my head around any feasible reason for that to be hard to implement in the game

But once the trick helped

kinda wonder if it's an intentional choice for aesthetic or something

which, yeah, sure, I kinda get, but then lock it behind completing the game for the first time then

Dunno tbh

[karmic mesa]

I actually heard rumor that the engine that they're using to run sky for Android actually crashes whenever they try to mute the audio

It's just a rumor and I don't know if it's true

[fast hearth]

Oh

That could make sense

Anyways also on iOS you can't mute the game

a workaround for that would just be to include a blank audio file and loop it though...

Unless you play in silent mode like

No audio volume

Probably not that easy? Dunno

like, I could see them not wanting that as a permanent solution, but when people have been asking for it for about a year I uh

don't really understand why it's not included

[karmic mesa]

Turning down the volume physically on the device will make the game quieter... in addition to everything else that the phone is playing

XD

[fast hearth]

Exactly

yeah I've got headphones that can connect to two devices at once - one over the audio jack and one over Bluetooth

but even if I use that with my laptop or something it kinda defeats the point if I can't hear in-game audio

[karmic mesa]

The headphone aesthetic don't really apply to me though... If I'm listening to music while playing sky... I've got YouTube music open on my laptop and the volume on my phone is all the way down... XD

[fast hearth]

and I have to go back and forth between volume sliders on each device when people playing music in-game gets involved

Yeah when you play in-game it gets a bit annoying

But guys maybe better move in #general-sky-discussion to make observations about this

So we won't clog this channel ahah

[karmic mesa]

Clog?... This happens all the time

[fast hearth]

Well last time I was told is a Nono thing

Especially in the other question channel

[karmic mesa]

It's generally good to keep things in there specific channels

[pearl jackal]

||some magisk modules can adjust volume in per-app aspect. But it MIGHT brick your phone and make you fail to pass safetynet||

[karmic mesa]

Yeah don't do that unless you know exactly what you're doing

[fast hearth]

Le what

[karmic mesa]

Complicated Android stuff

I wouldn't recommend trying it

I did things like that with my older Android devices that I didn't care about...

[fast hearth]

I like my phone working properly lol

[fast hearth]

you'd be surprised how often this channel derails into us just talking about tech

mods apparently don't really care too much unless it's preventing someone from getting help ¯_(ツ)_/¯

Oh ok than lol

Well the main question channel works everytime

[karmic mesa]

Right... Additionally, we tend to have quite a few lurkers that end up learning a few things

[fast hearth]

I usually look in the other channel cause I noticed more people ask there

But sometimes I have a look here too

Ehehe

[karmic mesa]

This channel is specific for Android... The other one is for all the other kinds of questions

[fast hearth]

Exactly

[karmic mesa]

I stay here because I have a great deal of knowledge on Android

[fast hearth]

But also a lot of android player ask in the other one

Cool! I'll ask you if I have problems then lol

[karmic mesa]

I'm not the only one here that has a good deal of knowledge on Android... Cobalt and Uzephi are fairly knowledgeable

[fast hearth]

this is like
the one channel I have unmuted

[pearl jackal]

Yeah like we can talk about new A11 external audio detect api

[karmic mesa]

Same

[fast hearth]

wonder what sherpa's been up to recently

[karmic mesa]

Genshin

[fast hearth]

you know what I want more than that in A11

not absolutely busted Vulkan drivers

[karmic mesa]

XD

I'm so glad that my S20 FE 5G hasn't upgraded to A11 yet

Everything is still perfectly stable

For now

But I know the upgrade is coming soon

Cuz other people with this phone already have it

[fast hearth]

I should not be getting better performance in OpenGL when I try running GameCube games on my phone

actually yeah my OnePlus 6 will apparently be getting the A11 upgrade eventually

[karmic mesa]

Uhh... Actually that's completely normal

[fast hearth]

even though it came out in like 2018

[fast hearth]

Vulkan runs better on every piece of hardware it's supported on unless the drivers suck

[karmic mesa]

Usually

[pearl jackal]

||find a rom flashed
BRICKED
Post on XDA: brick& bootloop pls send help||

[karmic mesa]

Android drivers always suck

[fast hearth]

and there ya go

[karmic mesa]

They even have a hard time with controller support... 👀

Actually... I haven't tried an Xbox controller with my new flagship... What are the odds that still bugs out?

[fast hearth]

0

Me having no controller: 🥲

name your price range and I'll hook you up with an eBay or Amazon link

Oh

[karmic mesa]

XD

[fast hearth]

Ahahaha

No money RN sadly

Ahahah

[karmic mesa]

I have a large collection of controllers... Anywhere from the Xbox 360 controller to the Nintendo Switch Pro controller... Including PlayStation and one of those attachable ones that attached to both sides of your phone...

The major console players did a good job on making sure their controllers are compatible with other platforms

[fast hearth]

I never had a playstation nor a Nintendo console so

[karmic mesa]

👀

[fast hearth]

No idea on these things lol

[karmic mesa]

80% of my play time on sky is through a PlayStation 3 controller

XD

[fast hearth]

Yeah I know. That's strange lol

And I also play with one hand mode using two hands

[karmic mesa]

I couldn't

[fast hearth]

I actually tried the 2 hands mode

I can't lmao

Cause the button stays low

I would play with a controller more often
except Sky's flight controls with it are awful

[karmic mesa]

I need to have the abilityto control my camera

[fast hearth]

With one hand I can press basically everyehere

[karmic mesa]

My flying actually improved when I switched to a controller

[fast hearth]

there's like a one second delay every time you turn, and I know that's not just Bluetooth latency because it works perfectly on the ground

[fast hearth]

I do that with 2 fingers

[karmic mesa]

You should see it, I fly like a pro

[fast hearth]

Is just the timing lol

[fast hearth]

man how in the world did you get better with extra latency

I learnt to fly properly even this way ^^

[karmic mesa]

I don't have extra latency

I should fly you around one day

To show you

[fast hearth]

hmm

because I swear like
when I'm walking and jumping it's fine
but when I fly there's a delay specifically on turning the character

[karmic mesa]

Without a controller my CR takes around 2 to 3 hours... With the controller can be a little as one and a half

[fast hearth]

let me double check and see if the lag also applies to boosting

[fast hearth]

Are you bolt? Lmao

[karmic mesa]

XD

[fast hearth]

Well I loose a lot of time chatting maybe is that lol

...wait you run the ENTIRE thing in 1.5 hours

HUH

[karmic mesa]

Yeah

I'm quick

[fast hearth]

How the heck

Lol

is that including the extra side routes

[karmic mesa]

Yup

[fast hearth]

there's no way

[karmic mesa]

Hehe

I should show you one day

Tho... To actually hit 1 and 1/2 hours... Most of the light has to already have been melted before I get there

[fast hearth]

ok so this is weird

turning left and right isn't delayed

only up or down

[karmic mesa]

Hmm

[fast hearth]

and i know it's not the controller

this is my primary PC controller too so i'd definitely notice my stick being broken

[upper sail]

Hi folks, what's up?

[karmic mesa]

The Sky

[tame comet]

Cobalt, you're in luck. A11 has updated Vulkan Drivers that aren't busted. A11 updated to Vulkan 1.1.128 which is possibly why a few manufacturers are having delays on releasing A11.

[fast hearth]

LET'S GO

[elfin finch]

Is this means i can't play sky after update

[tame comet]

#android-questions message might help. I would also make sure you still pass safetynet and your device shows as certified in play store settings. Google has been fiddling with the hardware backed attestation over the past few months and some devices got false flagged temporarily.

[spiral steeple]

You need to have a 10+ version of your android to support sky

[fast hearth]

uh the minimum is 8

@elfin finch ignore them. check the pinned messages in this channel, there's a walkthrough to get this fixed

[wooden pendant]

Is anyone else experiencing constant merges? Does anyone know if this is a common issue?

[dusty ginkgo]

If you mean server merges than sometimes yes. Happens on both android and iOS

[wooden pendant]

@dusty ginkgo Let me clarify, I play with friends and I am the only one that merges multiple times per minute (think merge every 10 seconds) even if I'm holding hands with them. They don't merge, they stay together, I get thrown off and then back to them 10 seconds later, rinse and repeat.

[fast hearth]

Did you try to refresh the app?

[wooden pendant]

@fast hearth As in close the app and start it again?

[fast hearth]

Yep

[wooden pendant]

I tried everything from restarting the app to a fresh re-install of it. It has been an ongoing issue with me since the December update.

[fast hearth]

Mmmm have you done a report in #report-a-live-bug or #bug-reports-android ?

If the problem still goes on try to dm @compact basalt to "speak" with the team.

[fast hearth]

Keep in mind that current Cs first response wait is about 5 day

[wooden pendant]

At first I thought an update might fix it, but after the new season came and the issue persisted, I reported it on the app. First report, I got a generic "this is a common issue and we're working on improving".
Waited a bit then reported it again; they asked me for a screen recording of the issue which I submitted 6 days ago and still got no response.

Which is what prompted me to come on here and check if somebody else was having a similar issue

[fast hearth]

Ok, probably they'll reply to you shortly

Some days (after the last update) I have the same problem on my iOS device

But usually restarting helps...

[wooden pendant]

@fast hearth Thanks for trying to help, have a great day!

[fast hearth]

No worries ^^

Sorry I couldn't help more >.<
Have a nice day too @Shady#0635 ^^

[wooden pendant]

Thank you 🙂

[fast hearth]

Well this discord bug with tags bothers me 🥲

Happens to you too?

[wooden pendant]

@fast hearth Not really 🙄

[karmic mesa]

O.o

[fast hearth]

I'm from my phone

[karmic mesa]

@karmic mesa

Hmm...

[fast hearth]

Occurs kinda often actually

[karmic mesa]

XD

[fast hearth]

You calling yourself? Lol

[karmic mesa]

Hehe

[fast hearth]

Anyways could it be a bug from discord in your opinion?

[karmic mesa]

Yeah, and an old one too

[fast hearth]

Oh thank youuu ^^

I was worried my phone was throwing a tantrum

[karmic mesa]

XD

[fast hearth]

That wouldn't be a news 🥲

[buoyant thunder]

Seasonal candle locations?

[elfin radish]

#seasons-events-chat #seasons-events-chat message
@buoyant thunder

[steady hemlock]

Hi I ask again here bc my friend have Android and it’s the 3 time I ask here so how to alive the problem with the names and candles bc other friend of mine have the same problem that the name and number of candles get like out of the screen and I don’t know what to do

Someone who have the same problem please tell me ways to fix it

[next yoke]

Is that name at the side for the person next to you?

[steady hemlock]

Yes it’s a picture that the friend send me

[next yoke]

Hmm I'm not sure if there's a way to truly fix any of the text problems for android other than try restarting the app and see if that helps, submitting a bug report might help the devs figure out a solution though

[tame comet]

Best solution we can give is to sync account (to not lose progress, there is instructions in pins on how to link your account to facebook/gmail) uninstall, reinstall from the play store and log back in to your account and see if that fixes the issue. If it doesn't, as Owl128 said, a #bug-reports-android might be the best option.

[steady hemlock]

Thank you but how I’m doing that

[tame comet]

#android-questions message has the instructions on how to link your account.

To report a bug, the channel I linked has instructions.

[steady hemlock]

I mean bug report

[tame comet]

#bug-reports-android

[old rivet]

How come we have less quality of graphics? Is it the coding? Like I'm genuinely curious

[tame comet]

Android fragmentation. It's hard to make everything look good when not every Android device is optimized correctly.

A good example is my Pixel 3a can handle 60 fps mode, but it's disabled since it is highly optimized compared to other SD670 devices out there.

[proper tree]

Hello

How good does a Samsung Tab A7 work with sky?

Thinking about purchasing this tablet but would like to see other opinions

[tame comet]

I see it should have a 64 bit OS per a quick Google search. It has an Adreno 610 GPU. It should run the game fine. You won't get 60 fps and you might have frame stutters at high quality mode.

[proper tree]

Do you have any better suggestions,I want 60fps

You're very knowledgable btw

[tame comet]

You would need a higher end model like the tab S6. The A7 is a budget device. Even the old Tab S4 from 2018 would support 60fps but the A7 that released last year can't due to it having a "budget" processor.

[proper tree]

I suppose $350 is a reasonable price

What are your thoughts on Ipads with sky?

[tame comet]

The S4 has an Adreno 540 which is plenty powerful enough for 60 fps.

[proper tree]

Do they work better than androids or about the same?

[old rivet]

Thank you

[tame comet]

I personally can't give an opinion on Apple products.

[proper tree]

Oh,I see.

Thank you for all your help,It's much appreciated!

[tame comet]

[fast hearth]

@proper tree I have an iPad 5th generation and it runs smoothly

[proper tree]

Oh,One last question.(So sorry) What does the s6 run on?

[proper tree]

60 fps? And good quality resolution?

[fast hearth]

Yeah that too

But I'm not super expert

[proper tree]

If you don't mind,Can you send a pic?

[fast hearth]

So better if you get other opinions too

Ofc

[proper tree]

Tysm

[tame comet]

S6 runs an Adreno 640. Very capable

[proper tree]

Ty

[karmic mesa]

Tab S6

[teal obsidian]

@proper tree Let me just spoiler this so it doesn't look like a plug lol
||Videos and screenshots on thatskyshin's YouTube channel are mostly taken on a Galaxy Tab S6
https://youtu.be/vr3WiQaepT4
^ The 2021 Sky New Year event video in particular was taken using the built-in screen recorder at 720p, 30 fps, (663 p I think?) and with Media sounds only.
I have a 60fps video of playing music but I don't go 60fps often because during my first test, the heat reached 43 centigrade within 10 minutes. I think I had minimum width 711 p at that time. PM me if you are interested and I will look for it for you or just record an area for your leisure lol.

The built-in SR has a 1080p option too, however, despite having the best quality, it ONLY record at 60 fps. So at Level 3 graphics, heat reaches 41-42 centigrade after around 10-15 minutes of recording at 720p and the time varies depending on the Minimum Width. I've been using/testing a third-party screen recorder (Mobizen) to avoid heating concerns.||

[proper tree]

Thanks.. XD

[teal obsidian]

If you want the BEST quality videos and screenshots, better go for an iPad or an iPhone device. Even if its secondhand. << my two cents.
For now, android quality is throttled due to heating concerns. A while ago someone posted a .txt explaining how he got around this but, he jailbroke his phone :SkyShrug:

[proper tree]

So all in all it's a good tablet?

I don't make vids so android is best for me right?

[teal obsidian]

...... For Sky I would pick an iPad XD. But this has DeX!! Also it's android. I love the openness. 🥺

It really... depends on your priorities.

[proper tree]

If my only priorites are to play sky,What's my best pick?

[teal obsidian]

also, YES. XD

Hmm... how long have you been playing Sky? Have you done all the content?

[proper tree]

I've only played a month

[teal obsidian]

Have you ever used an iOS device?

[proper tree]

No

Only android

[karmic mesa]

I have

[teal obsidian]

Ask DreamFyre, I've never used iOS and he's used both!

[proper tree]

Which one's better,Dream?

[karmic mesa]

For playing sky? iPhone hands down...

[proper tree]

Tablet-wise

[teal obsidian]

(I did see my friend's iPad footage IRL and damn... it looked awesome. 😢)

[karmic mesa]

The iPads are quite powerful

[teal obsidian]

iPad has bigger battery haahhaha

[karmic mesa]

Only Samsung makes actual competitive tablets

For the Android market

[proper tree]

Interesting

IPad is better,then?

They're also pricy so idk

[karmic mesa]

Tablets that are powerful enough to play sky are pretty pricey too

[teal obsidian]

Well.. the standard iPad last year costs half of this S6 so.....

[proper tree]

Standard? Does that means it's good quality?

[teal obsidian]

standard iPad P20,000 PHP, this S6 during 2nd quarter of 2020 P46,000 PHP (keyboard and S pen included).

no no, I mean the normal iPad, not the Pro or Air. But if you're going for portability, better iPhone. But battery wise (and drool worth wise) iPad -- the form factor is higher after all...

[karmic mesa]

Yeah... Apple devices are way more optimized for playing Sky than Android simply because there are fewer of them.

[teal obsidian]

Don't even consider the iPhone SE 2020 btw. that's dead in like an hour probably.

[proper tree]

So much info

Alright so ipad of 2020,yes?

[karmic mesa]

Ya

[proper tree]

What's it called?

[karmic mesa]

https://www.apple.com/ipad-10.2/

[proper tree]

Woah only 329???

[karmic mesa]

Yeah

[teal obsidian]

cough no charger cough xinfo

[proper tree]

I mean sure,I might not have enough for the ap after this but eh whatever XD

bruh

[karmic mesa]

You can buy a charger though for like 30 bucks

[proper tree]

No charger? Sad.

So all in all it's gonna cost about $360

[karmic mesa]

I'd say 400 to be safe

[teal obsidian]

I think you'll need a controller too.

[proper tree]

How long does it typically last?

[karmic mesa]

The phone I bought cost around $700 but I paid around $800 after adding the accessories

[proper tree]

Controller? I can't just use my hands?

[teal obsidian]

Playing on a tablet with your fingers gets old fast

[proper tree]

Not as convenient as playing on a phone?

With your hands

[teal obsidian]

Yeah.

[karmic mesa]

I play with a controller

[teal obsidian]

Me too.

[proper tree]

A xbox controller,I'm guessing?

[karmic mesa]

I use Samsung Dex to play it on the TV

Xbox controller would work assuming you had an OTG cable

Or it could be wireless

[teal obsidian]

I think my friend used a Sony controller with her iPad

[karmic mesa]

I definitely play with the PS3 controller

XD

[teal obsidian]

I personally use a Gen Game, but I'm using Tab S6

[karmic mesa]

I don't know if Apple supports the PlayStation controllers

[proper tree]

Ill just do this,Shin can you send me a pic

And dream can you send me a pic

[meager raft]

They do

[proper tree]

If you both don't mind

[teal obsidian]

of what?

[karmic mesa]

That's good

[proper tree]

Gameplay

[karmic mesa]

With a controller?

[proper tree]

No just your gameplay on tab

[meager raft]

Also that iPad DOES come with a charger? Where did you get that it doesn’t?

[karmic mesa]

I don't own an iPad... I just have a friend who has one

[teal obsidian]

Uh.. you know... I need a keyboard when I'm using this controller. Because, the keyboard won't pop-up on ths screen when the controller is connected. hahahaha

[proper tree]

You own a iphone yes,dream?

[karmic mesa]

No

[teal obsidian]

@proper tree I'll send it just wait a bit.

[karmic mesa]

I've used an iPad and iPhone before... But I personally prefer android

[proper tree]

kk

[karmic mesa]

Here is my phone

https://youtu.be/73zq9lV8dZA

[proper tree]

That quality is about the same as..The s10

[karmic mesa]

And this is how I play

https://youtu.be/x3ubVagbgcM

[teal obsidian]

DeX mode really tilts the scales in android's favor tbh...

[tame comet]

For non-samsung devices, you can mirror your screen to a PC using scrcpy. That's how I send the game to my TV.

[proper tree]

The difference between gameplay on ios and android is clear.It's probably that way because ios was on sky before android

[tame comet]

It's that way because iOS is pretty straight forward across their line up compared to the fragmentation of Android.

[karmic mesa]

Yeah

[proper tree]

Oh,I see

[fast hearth]

i've tried using that but the input latency is too much for me
if the phone supports HDMI out that's always the way to go

(one of the only complaints i have with my phone is that it doesn't)

[tame comet]

I don't get any noticeable latency. Under 33ms which is the latency for 30fps

[karmic mesa]

Yeah, I don't notice any input latency when playing sky... Even going through a dock switch style

[fast hearth]

must just be my phone then

[karmic mesa]

My performance video for the S20 FE 5G was made with a controller...

[ocean flare]

I'm using a samsung galaxy tab s6 with touchscreen control. Tried one-hand control and two-hand control, but none is really making me happy. So, I thought of getting a controller. Anyone willing to share experiences? which controller works with the tab S6?

[tame comet]

I personally use a PS4 controller. PS4 and Xbox controllers should pair fine to Android. Don't try a Nintendo Pro Controller or a joycon. They pair in Android just fine, but there currently is no mapping in Sky for them.

Cobalt knows of a 3rd party controller. Forgot what it was. When they are online, they might be able to give you more options

[ocean flare]

thanks, I want to avoid buying a controller that will end up not working

how is the gameplay with the controller? better?

[tame comet]

I couldn't get emote menu working with my PS4 controller or navigate other menus like that. Flight and candle lighting is fine though.

I haven't used it in a few months though, they might have mapped controls for that by now.

[karmic mesa]

Yes, you can control most of the menus with a controller now

[tame comet]

I might switch back to PS4 controller or try my joycons now.

[languid glade]

Can you play instruments with a controller

[karmic mesa]

Kinda

[languid glade]

So one note at a time?

[karmic mesa]

No... Like...

Specific notes are attached to specific keys... But not all of the notes are mapped

[languid glade]

Oh

[karmic mesa]

Yeah

Kinda... If you just want to make noise

But no if you actually want to play a song

[languid glade]

Lol

[woeful jasper]

😉

[languid glade]

[gusty pier]

Do i just need to wear the chibi mask and i can become smol? No need for size potions?

[feral tree]

Yess

[dapper fossil]

Who knows when the vertical mode feature will be available on Android?

[grave delta]

I'm not sure if portrait mode is an intended feature as it is a known bug in iOS live

[desert salmon]

Hey friends! Anyone knows if the Xiaomi Redmi 9T is compatible with Sky?

[dapper fossil]

Does he still have a camera that slides out? If yes, it supports

[violet fjord]

If you have it physically right now just search on an App Store/Google Play for Sky, if the app pops out it's compatible!

[mystic tinsel]

Maybe look up if there are gameplay videos of the phone on YT. Then it works for sure

[mystic tinsel]

What kind of keyboard is this?

[languid glade]

That's a usb MIDI keyboard

[gusty pier]

How many hearts can i get from spirits? Also is it possible to unlock every cosmetic from every spirit by only using the hearts u get from all the spirits?

[languid glade]

I think there are 39 spirits
And each spirit can give 1 heart

[mystic tinsel]

I dunno how many spirits have but given that some cosmetic cost 50 hearts it is save to say the hearts of all spirit are not enough

[onyx zinc]

You can’t. Heart trades are against the rules in the whole server. Asking close friends elsewhere is better

[mystic tinsel]

Really it is? Sorry didn't know that

[gusty pier]

Dang

[topaz reef]

please also avoid directing members to other communities to arrange heart trades. Arranging transactions of currency with people you don't know is likely to lead to scams, harassment, or other poorly intentioned behaviour, which is why it isn't allowed in this server.
If you choose to trade heart-gifts, it's best to only do so with someone you know and trust

[floral scroll]

[trim breach]

@karmic mesa hi, does your phone heat up when playing sky?

[karmic mesa]

Ya... A little

[trim breach]

30 fps or 60?

[karmic mesa]

60

[trim breach]

cool. thanks!

[karmic mesa]

[tame comet]

Pro tip: if your device supports "battery idle mode," I would suggest keeping it plugged in and fully charged while playing. That alleviated all of my heat issues while playing Sky. (Most devices Android 9+ should have this feature, it stops charging the battery and your phone is directly taking power from your power cable.)

Before this feature was introduced, the way the system would take power while fully charged was use the battery power and charge the battery. A good chunk of heat from this game for most devices is actually the heat of the battery since it is placed so close to the main board, the SoC (CPU/GPU) would get some of that latent heat.

Don't get me wrong, I still get some heating, but not as bad as draining battery or playing while charging. Idle mode SoC temp is around 48°C while dis/charging I would see temps up to 75°C. That's a big difference.

[karmic mesa]

👀

[tame bramble]

Performance
hELP

[fast hearth]

yes

[tame bramble]

I feel ignorant about asking this.. but is there any way to improve the performance? Or to solve heat issues on android?

Anything I can do?

[fast hearth]

disable background tasks, use the game mode if your phone has one, or buy a better phone

[karmic mesa]

I did the last one

Cost me a pretty penny too

[pearl jackal]

||undervoltage if you know what you are doing||

[fast hearth]

(please do not try this)

if you name your budget and your current phone I can most likely find you a better one

[karmic mesa]

Ooo

Yeah it's a bad idea to tamper with the inside of your phone

[mystic tinsel]

I recently got the xiaomi redmi note 9s recommended by the lovely gwennifer and sky is running wonderfully on it. The phone doesn’t heat up and the battery last forever. For a phone in a prize range under 200 this is by far the best deal

[fast hearth]

i'll have to compare the specs to whatever i can find from oneplus for that price range

[tame comet]

This would require the person knowing how to use git, build, and know C to change the voltage table of the kernel source code. Ever since kernel 4.x.x, you cannot change voltage tables in user or root space. It is locked behind the kernel code.

Even if they were able to do all of the above, the trial and error of getting a stable undervolt won't give much in return. Maybe 2-4°C less temps and 1% battery life savings.

[pearl jackal]

Yeah you need to build kernel to change voltage table and freq table. Considering you are playing games it won't save your battery much. But it does lower some temperature. undervoltage in low frequency makes littile sense compare to the effort. It's best to do when your freq pass the performance/efficiency sweet spot. And it dose take a lot trying.

[tame comet]

Not enough to justify the effort. Doing the below undervolt (which was a heavy undervolt, an average of 0.2v drop) didn't yield much in the way of dropping temperatures. My users maybe saw 2-4°C which in the grand scheme of things wasn't much. This is due to how Android and Linux handle voltage tables. https://github.com/Uzephi/kernel_nash/commit/ef8fb906a416d9950577a42ff01a800efc6e66b2#diff-4371c1928f1a2257d97e54097d8c37b4025206986469c0417c14cb6143472e49

Also the whole: this is a little more advanced than your average user.

[pearl jackal]

0.2v drop is a pretty high undervolt.

And yes this total just a little tiny bit andvanced from avarage user. Otherwise qualcomm can just pick those good dies to make a new product line.
||unless you know what you doing, don't try.
10/10 unrecommended||

[hushed wigeon]

hey i have a question i am not sure if this is also for other people but when i play sky it tells me it a message that it isn't optimized for the minimum of the game's specs, and i am experiencing lag spikes, and low quality for any settings, i am playing on a samsung e20, with android 10, i am not sure if this is just for me, or others, and i was wondering are there things i can do to fix this?

p.s. it used to be worse and crashed my game duo to this.

[upper thicket]

That's coz the specs of your phone are minimal to run this game. Basically phone is little weak for the game. Just having android 10 isn't enough! Mine has that message too. Not much to do to fix that, except buying a better phone or dealing with the lag! Thankfully my phone usually doesn't crash, it was a good phone for the time, it's just old. Very laggy tho, especially in specific areas

[tame comet]

Are you sure the model is an e20? I can't find the specs on it anywhere. All search results come up with a notebook not phone or tablet.

[hushed wigeon]

the phone is called, samsung e20

[hushed wigeon]

oh okay thanks! <:3

[hushed wigeon]

sorry typo i ment: samsung a20e

[tame comet]

Ah, yeah, the A20e isn't powerful enough for the game. Budget exynos processors aren't built for heavy workloads. They were engineered for basic video playback and browsing web pages. High graphical games won't work that well on them.

[hushed wigeon]

but i played heavy games on it before and they worked fine, didn't had problems at all

so i should get a better phone next time? [when this one dies ofc]

[upper thicket]

Well if you want better sky gameplay I would recommend to buy a better phone yes

I'm also kind of waiting for my phone to die :')

[hushed wigeon]

alright <:3

same

but it still works too well to die yet

phone die already lmao

[karmic mesa]

Yes I have experienced gameplay on a phone with the exact same hardware (Samsung Galaxy A20) there are things that I did to make it run a little better... However, you're not going to be able to avoid the lag spikes or the quality hit... My particular A20 was very stable despite the performance...

[meager saffron]

How do you get headphones if when you listen to music they don't appear?

[upper sail]

The headphones appear on your character when you play music or audio in another app while playing Sky. You can use them any time by putting on some tunes! (iOS only, until it's implemented for android)

[normal glacier]

I just cant open the game since one hour ago
Server issues don't let me open the loby

[sharp depot]

how do u take a video without the controls and ui lol or is that not possible

[slender yacht]

unfortunately screen recording without the UI is only available on iOS as of now

[vocal laurel]

idk if this is the right channel to talk about but my friend's device is somehow not compatible anymore. my friend has a sister with the same device and weirdly her sister's device is still compatible???

[fast hearth]

check pinned messages here

[tame comet]

#android-questions message is the pinned message. Google has been playing with their Compatibility Test Suite and safetynet. This has false flagged some devices as "modified." Doing the linked steps should fix the issue.

[fast hearth]

It's ridiculous that Google still hasn't fixed that

[vocal laurel]

ah okaii thank youu

[tame comet]

I know I am a contributor to their trying to detect modified devices and apologize for playing the mouse part of Google's cat and mouse game.

[normal glacier]

Could someone help me ?
I till trying to open the game for almost 2 hours

[tame comet]

Have you updated the game? I see the update won't stop you from playing yet. Still a good thing to check out as an update hit today to fix some bugs.

[hallow grove]

Hello world, does update appear in your Android device? Coz it doesn't appear in mine 😦

[nocturne marsh]

whyy does my update goes up to 2 GB?

[tame comet]

Odd, my update was what's called a "delta" update and it was like 19mb or something that small

[grim drift]

Can someone help me qwq

I tried to eden and when I reached to the galaxy part it suddenly freeze and restart my phone and that never happened to me before qwq

[sharp spoke]

Restarted your whole phone, not just the app? I suggest you to write a bug report about it into #bug-reports-android and try it again using the return shrine hoping it was a one time thing.

[grim drift]

Ok I'll try qwq

it still didnt work qwq,,i report the bug yester day qwq

[quaint vapor]

hey does sky work in galaxy m21?

[sharp depot]

oh awwww thanks a lot!

[languid glade]

Yes it does work

[fast hearth]

what you can do to hide the movement controls is play with a controller though

[sharp depot]

oo big brain

[fast hearth]

if your device doesn't support recording internal audio you can connect a headphone splitter to your headphone jack, then plug an aux cord into each end of the headphone splitter

[pearl jackal]

Question. If sky Android added a button to toggle off UI. In which way to toggle it back.
Any suggestion?

[white gate]

Hii can vivo y11 run sky smoothly?

[fathom drift]

It would struggle a bit. You can probably run it at 30fps default but I'm sure it'll struggle and heat up quite badly.

[quaint vapor]

does it work smoothly? probably not i hope so it works

[karmic mesa]

It should run fairly decent... It has the same GPU as the Samsung Galaxy A50 and Samsung Galaxy Tab S6 lite... Which scores around 1, 500 in 3DMark you may run into some lag spikes here and there but as long as you keep the phone fairly clean (software wise) it should run decent

[harsh jackal]

What was fixed in latest update?

[plucky nimbus]

#news

[fast hearth]

is it possible to run sky on Android x86?

or another OS that can run APKs

[fast hearth]

I've had some luck with Bliss OS since their hardware virtualization actually works but I haven't tested in months

make sure you source your installation from Google Play

Vulkan currently isn't supported for Ryzen processors

I have i5

it'll have to be relatively new

no guarantees it'll work

I guess my system is enough for it but idk

[fast hearth]

yeah I'll try to do so cuz I want to use my google linked acc

I can show my device info if it's needed

to get a better help

let's see the exact processor model and the GPU

I'm unconcerned by the rest

CPU can be found somewhere under System in the Control Panel
GPU can be found by running the dxdiag program (search for it in the start menu) and looking on the Display tab(s)

hope u can understand

and it has GeForce MX350

[fast hearth]

that's a very good processor
the GPU looks alright

give it a try

is Bliss OS better?

than regular android-x86? absolutely

it has arm64 hardware bridging that actually works

as opposed to only 32-bit ARM

again, I don't know if it still works, but

I HAVE gotten it working before

[dense onyx]

Can I ask something?

[fast hearth]

no asking questions is against the rules this channel is just labeled #android-questions for fun

yes

[dense onyx]

Erk nevermind

[fast hearth]

i was kidding

what's up

Village of Dreams isn't allowing me joining a friend or a friend joining me. Is it a new bug?

[uneven juniper]

Did you both update the app? There was a hot fix yesterday!

If you're not on the same version, you cannot join each other

[fast hearth]

thanks, I'll try

but I'll test it on virtual pc first

I have android x86 iso file already so I'll try both

[steady goblet]

After the update the game disappeared from my Play Store, I tried to follow a link and the warning that the application was no longer compatible with my device appeared. where do i ask for help for that? ; -;

[fast hearth]

check this message @steady goblet

you know, one of these days i'm gonna forget to disable the part of the reply that mentions ktjn

[steady goblet]

Thanks @fast hearth

[tame comet]

If you need a reason, here is my post explaining why. TL/DR Google is playing with settings and, well. They done goofed.

[steady goblet]

Omg TwT

[livid stag]

What about older intel cpus? I my computer is based off a 2012 MacBook Air.

[fast hearth]

depends

[void coyote]

how do i refund purchased items in sky?

[next yoke]

I don't think there are refunds for iaps, but in the store if you scroll all the way right there should be a "restore purchases" button iirc

[karmic mesa]

[distant matrix]

What's your graphics card? I wanted to try this a while ago but I failed at getting OpenGL ES 3.1
Some sources say it's implemented on GTX 1650 and newer while the Wiki says 400 series and newer

[karmic mesa]

What phone does she have?

Many phones run Android 10, but lack the hardware to play the game

The a11 is unfortunately 32-bit

Sky requires 64-bit

Which phone do you have?

[versed mirage]

Oooh thats so sad, thank you!

[karmic mesa]

Yeah that one appears... Though I don't expect it to play 100% smooth

[fast hearth]

i've got hybrid graphics, meaning i have two GPUs

i was never able to force it to use my GTX 1060 since apparently BlissOS hasn't incorporated Nvidia's proprietary linux driver or something

it was running off my integrated Intel UHD 630

[tame comet]

Yeah, big N's linux driver is just binary blobs. Most distros need sudo to apply blobs due to the open source nature of Linux.

[fast hearth]

and the open source driver for Nvidia is way worse in terms of performance

[tame comet]

Better perf than UHD630 tho

[karmic mesa]

I don't like the UHD 630...

[fast hearth]

i was under the impression nouveau or whatever it's called was barely usable

(disclaimer: i haven't used it, i've just stuck with the proprietary drivers whenever i throw linux on my laptop, i just saw a fancy bar graph this one time)

[karmic mesa]

I've noticed the UHD 630 has some weirdness with DirectX 11...

[tame comet]

I mean my 980 has better perf on the open source driver than my Vega 8 built in the 2200G

I don't like blobs, so my Ubuntu install uses the open source driver...

Back on topic for Android though: Bliss shouldn't be used for daily play for the game. Is there official word if it's okay to use Bliss?

[fast hearth]

Well it crashes on my secondary laptop with a UHD 620 so I was wondering if they intentionally set something up to block it out
and customer support said no
So I assume they're fine with it due to how niche it is and the setup process kind of guarantees the user knows full well what they're getting into

I have yet to see otherwise

[glossy minnow]

is anyone ever playing sky with samsung dex? how's the experience

[karmic mesa]

Oh... Me me!!!

Okay... I've had an amazing experience with it... There's only two downsides

[vital sedge]

Pls help me

[karmic mesa]

1. It is very difficult to type or send any kind of text messaging...
2. it's very difficult to play songs on any instrument

Other than that it plays very well... I'd recommend getting a dock... Like this

[glossy minnow]

oh! thank u for answering
i understand if we find difficulties with instruments but,
we can't use the keyboard plugged in pc for the messages?

[karmic mesa]

#android-questions message

[karmic mesa]

Of course you can... You just cannot see what you're typing.

[fast hearth]

I need to figure out how to peer pressure the devs into adding keyboard and mouse support for the mobile versions

[karmic mesa]

XD

[fast hearth]

to be fair, the M1 Mac is now a thing

[karmic mesa]

There's one slight problem...

[fast hearth]

so there's a non-hobbyist use for it!

[karmic mesa]

As far as I know... Android doesn't have the capability of capturing the mouse

[fast hearth]

.

how does minecraft do it

[karmic mesa]

It doesn't

The mobile version of Minecraft doesn't capture the mouse

[glossy minnow]

i see.. how's the control then? do u use controller?

[karmic mesa]

Definitely use a controller

XD

Using the mouse to control yourself is going to be a pain

[glossy minnow]

aw man..

[fast hearth]

I am having some serious cognitive dissonance right now

[karmic mesa]

O.o

Let me just test my theory on Android 11... I tried it on Android 10 and it wouldn't capture the mouse

[fast hearth]

I think I'm getting it mixed up with the Win10 version
there's also a project that runs the Android version through a Linux (or Mac) compatibility layer that has perfect mouse support
maybe they hacked it together somehow

[karmic mesa]

If anybody would have the support in their device, it would be Samsung

Samsung added a lot of Android 10 and Android 11 features back in Android 7

XD

Like individual app sound control and screen recording with internal audio

[fast hearth]

or Google with their Pixel line (and maybe you count Nexus)

[karmic mesa]

Nope... Same as it always is... Keyboard works... But the mouse isn't captured

[vital sedge]

Still not working 😭😭

Asking for updates

[karmic mesa]

[vital sedge]

I have 16gb free

[karmic mesa]

I mean clearly the device is compatible

The game is running

Hhhh

This is Google's fault

[vital sedge]

It's not running

What do I do

[karmic mesa]

Did you follow the instructions 100% without skipping any steps?

[vital sedge]

Yes I did

[sly sun]

When will the cool headset when u play music while playing appear for android i been waiting for ages just for that.. iphones has it pls kindly consider our request and introduce it to android too

[karmic mesa]

O.o

[sly sun]

Spending a hell lot of time here btw

So i guess considering the request might be cool ✌🏻🤭

[karmic mesa]

It's already been considered and is currently being worked on

XD

Android is just stupidly complex and confusing...

[sly sun]

Not really though android can be customised in any way you want but thats not easy for ios

@karmic mesa i hope i get headset in android soon yay cant wait to see it XD

[karmic mesa]

I meant on a coding perspective... Android 11 is the only version of Android that currently has the ability to have an application detect when another application is playing audio... Previously that kind of information was hidden and impossible to access... The headphones rely on the ability to detect when an app is playing music or when you're in a call... Which was only available on iOS

[sly sun]

Oh yeah well i switched to latest version of android just hoping that it would make some difference but tbh no change at all

[karmic mesa]

They haven't implemented a change to allow Android 11 users to use the headphones...

Things that may be considered simple could be actually incredibly complex and very difficult to accomplish when it comes to computers

[sly sun]

Yup now i understand the complexity of this issue

Well isnt there any alternative solution to this problem like can spotify or other apps just link to sky so that who ever is listening via the app can have the headset appear ingame?

[karmic mesa]

Unfortunately no

One of the main features of the headphones is muting sky... There are ways of doing that

[sly sun]

Muting sky means ? Like if i get that headset will i not be able to hear the repeated soundtrack of sky ?

[karmic mesa]

Yeah

[sly sun]

Well that helps too

What is the way to do it

?

[karmic mesa]

The headphones were there so that if you're listening to music sky isn't playing it sounds over the music

[sly sun]

Ohh thats amazing

I didnt knew that

[karmic mesa]

Many devices have the ability to individually control app volumes... it's Hit or Miss whether or not your device will support it

If your devices is Samsung then it's guaranteed supporting it

[sly sun]

I m using a Oneplus 7t

[karmic mesa]

Put on some music and then open Sky... Change the volume and see if you have the ability to mute individual applications

[sly sun]

Let me check now and will update you soon

[karmic mesa]

Here's how it looks on Samsung

[sly sun]

Oh wow thats cool

[karmic mesa]

(on Samsung) if you have bluetooth speakers connected to the phone you can have music coming out of the Bluetooth speakers and Sky coming out of the phone speakers individually... I think other manufacturers support this feature... But I'm not sure

[sly sun]

Well its not here maybe let me check app setting

@karmic mesa well i cant find such settings here

The game control panel of samsung seems like the best for android

[karmic mesa]

What happens when you click that little gear that I see on your screenshot

[sly sun]

This pops up

[karmic mesa]

Hmm

Your phone supports Dolby Atmos too

Cool

[sly sun]

Yeah

[karmic mesa]

I use the crap out of that

XD

[sly sun]

Damn thats crazy XD

[karmic mesa]

Yeah that's what happens when I press this button...

[teal obsidian]

How?

[teal obsidian]

This

[karmic mesa]

https://apps.samsung.com/appquery/appDetail.as?appId=com.samsung.android.soundassistant

Go to town!

XD

[teal obsidian]

[karmic mesa]

[twilit heron]

How in the heck

Teach me senpai

[karmic mesa]

Try that link that I sent^^

[sly sun]

Oh yeah things are a bit different here

[twilit heron]

Ohmayghaaaaad

Tenchuuuuu

Now im hungry for more

[karmic mesa]

Mhm

XD

[twilit heron]

Installing it now xd

[sly sun]

But that works only for samsung right? Or will it work for me too @karmic mesa

[twilit heron]

Wow it has a lot of specific features for each individual app

How have ive missed it

[karmic mesa]

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.samsung.android.soundassistant

[twilit heron]

Thanks @karmic mesa i am now your fan *blows wind intensly

[karmic mesa]

It's very very very unlikely that it will work on your device because it uses the Samsung experience app... Which is preloaded in every Samsung phone

[sly sun]

Nope limited to samsung only 🥴

[karmic mesa]

Yeah

[sly sun]

Is there any alternative for this app?

[karmic mesa]

You see... Samsung gets around many Android limitations through their Samsung experience app... The Samsung experience app comes preloaded as a system application with root access... Third party software won't be able to access the parts of the device required to allow that kind of feature

[sly sun]

Yeah the biggest mistake i did in 2020 is switched from samsung to oneplus

Hoping that oxygen os makes some difference lol

[karmic mesa]

Nowadays "game optimization service" is also included with Samsung devices as a system app with root access... Which allows features like this

Which really come in handy when trying to preserve battery life

Or prevent overheating

[sly sun]

Thats nice this oneplus only has a feature called Fnatic mode which boosts the game performance like anything

But doesnt have many functions to play around with it.

[karmic mesa]

Like this?