The412Banner 344e70afc6 Keep the session alive in the background, rename the package, sign with the testkey, and draw the app a logo ...

The session now belongs to a foreground service rather than the activity.
Android demotes a process as soon as its last visible activity goes and the
low-memory killer reaps the guest, so leaving Big Picture to answer a message
came back to a dead Steam; the service holds the process at perceptible
priority, a partial wake lock keeps the CPU from dropping the guest's threads,
and a high-performance WiFi lock keeps a backgrounded download from being
throttled to nothing. The notification is silent (IMPORTANCE_LOW), carries a
Stop action, and returns to the session when tapped. Back now puts the app away
and leaves Steam running; a swipe out of recents ends the session.

The compositor moved with it: it is process-wide, started once, and merely
swaps the Surface it presents into as the activity comes and goes.

Package is com.steamdeck.launcher, signed with the AOSP testkey (v1+v2+v3) so
every build installs over the last one, and CI asserts all three schemes.

The launcher icon is our own controller on a purple glow — the spirit of the
Steam tile the client entry uses, none of its geometry.

2026-09-19 14:17:25 -04:00

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