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The startup log named the GPU and a driver version, and on Android neither identifies the driver. adrenotools' hook falls back to the system driver when its dlopen of the custom one fails, and reports that only to logcat, so a session that silently ran the system driver logged exactly the same thing as one that ran the custom driver it was asked for. That is not hypothetical. Chasing a Skate 3 freeze on an Adreno 830 I recorded a custom driver as passing a test it never took: it had failed to load with "cannot locate symbol pthread_getaffinity_np", fallen back, and the log still said the custom driver was bound. The only tell was that its reported version matched the system driver's exactly, which needed three saved logs side by side to notice. Logs the driver identity Vulkan already reports -- name, driverID, info and conformance version, all of which were being fetched and thrown away -- and falls back to saying the identity is name-derived when VK_KHR_driver_properties is missing, which is common on the older Android devices this matters most on. Where a custom driver was requested and Qualcomm's own driver answered, that is a silent fallback, since adrenotools installs Mesa/Turnip builds. It now says so, and points at the logcat line carrying the actual reason. The loader's own message no longer claims more than it knows: the handle it binds is the one it was handed, and whether the driver behind it is the intended one is not something it can see.
ARMSX3
Uses the latest RPCS3 upstream code (the recent ARM64 improvements included).
Building
Only arm64-v8a is supported. You need the Android SDK with NDK r27 or newer, CMake 3.30 or newer, and a JDK 17. Android Studio ships all of these.
Clone with submodules, then fetch the two third party checkouts that are not submodules:
git clone --recursive https://github.com/ARMSX2/ARMSX3.git
cd ARMSX3
git clone https://github.com/SnowflakePowered/librashader 3rdparty/librashader
git clone https://github.com/bylaws/libadrenotools android/armsx3-ui/app/src/main/cpp/libadrenotools
Build the core. This is the long part and produces an unstripped library of around 1.3 GB:
export ANDROID_HOME=$HOME/Library/Android/sdk
cmake -B build-android -G Ninja \
-DCMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE=$ANDROID_HOME/ndk/<version>/build/cmake/android.toolchain.cmake \
-DANDROID_ABI=arm64-v8a -DANDROID_PLATFORM=android-31 \
-DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=RelWithDebInfo
cmake --build build-android --target rpcsx-android -j8
Strip it and put it where the app expects it:
llvm-strip --strip-unneeded build-android/android/libarmsx3-core.so
cp build-android/android/libarmsx3-core.so \
android/armsx3-ui/app/src/main/jniLibs/arm64-v8a/
Then build the app:
cd android/armsx3-ui
export JAVA_HOME="/Applications/Android Studio.app/Contents/jbr/Contents/Home"
./gradlew :app:assembleRelease
The apk lands in app/build/outputs/apk/release/.
Note that the core library has to be rebuilt and copied again whenever anything under rpcs3/ or android/src/ changes. Gradle does not build it for you.
The Discord Social SDK is proprietary and is not redistributed here. Get it from Discord's developer portal and drop it in app/libs/ and app/src/main/cpp/discord_sdk/ if you want that feature. The build skips it otherwise.
Running it needs PS3 firmware, which is not included. License
GPL-2.0-only, the same as RPCS3. See LICENSE. Some files may be licensed differently, check the file headers.
Based on RPCS3, https://github.com/RPCS3/rpcs3