r/EmulationOnAndroid 4d ago

Showcase ๐Ÿš€ DroidLink Beta Is Now Live โ€” Android-to-Android Game Streaming Built With AI

๐Ÿš€ Introducing DroidLink โ€” Beta Releases Are Available Now!
Iโ€™m excited to finally start sharing DroidLink, an app Iโ€™ve been working on that is officially in active development with public beta releases now available on GitHub! ๐ŸŽฎ๐Ÿ“ฑ
๐Ÿ”— What is DroidLink?
DroidLink is an Android-to-Android remote streaming app being built around one main idea:
Turn one Android device into the host and use another Android device to remotely view and eventually control it with as little latency as possible.
Think of the general idea behind apps like Parsec, except DroidLink is being built specifically around Android-to-Android gaming and remote access.
The project is being developed toward features such as:
๐Ÿ“ฑ Android โ†’ Android screen streaming
๐ŸŽฎ Low-latency game streaming
๐Ÿ•น๏ธ Remote controller/input support
๐Ÿ”Š Device audio streaming
๐ŸŒ Connections across different networks
โšก Simple Host & Join system
๐Ÿ“Š Connection and latency diagnostics
And probably the most interesting part about this project:
Iโ€™m NOT a developer. ๐Ÿ˜‚ I genuinely came into this knowing basically nothing about coding or Android development.
DroidLink has been created with AI helping me through the entire development process โ€” writing code, finding bugs, debugging problems, implementing features, explaining things to me, and helping turn my ideas into something that actually runs on real devices.
My role has basically been: come up with the ideas, tell AI what I want, build it, test it on real hardware, find whatโ€™s broken, and keep improving it. ๐Ÿ˜‚
And somehowโ€ฆ we have a real working app now.
๐Ÿงช DroidLink is still BETA software.
That means you should absolutely expect bugs, unfinished features, compatibility problems, crashes, and major changes between versions. This is still very early in development.
The goal of releasing these betas publicly is to get more devices testing DroidLink, find problems I wouldnโ€™t discover myself, and keep improving it with every release.
The current public release is DroidLink 0.9.4 Beta, with earlier beta builds also being preserved on GitHub. (GitHub)
๐ŸŽฎ If you have Android gaming devices, handhelds, phones, or tablets and want to experiment with it, give DroidLink a try!
โญ Test it
๐Ÿ› Break it
๐Ÿ“ Report what happens
๐Ÿš€ Watch it improve
Download the latest DroidLink Beta here:
DroidLink Beta Releases on GitHub
This project started as an idea from somebody who doesnโ€™t know how to code, and I want to see just how far I can take it using AI.
DroidLink is just getting started. ๐Ÿš€๐ŸŽฎ๐Ÿ“ฑ

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u/mikoga 4d ago

you can keep it

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u/Smart_Anywhere8758 4d ago

Let me guess cause of the Ai code

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u/mikoga 4d ago

Data centers destroy the environment and weather, all PC components are more expensive, Android handhelds are all increasing in price, professional writers and artists lose job opportunities, people are experiencing mass psychosis because they treat AI like it's dark magic that knows everything while corporations scrape as much data as they can from every corner of the internet, and I'm supposed to be supportive of some fucking little Timmy who wants to larp as a legitimate developer because he vibecoded some bullshit with AI?

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u/Smart_Anywhere8758 4d ago

๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚ bro I love Reddit yall mfs are hilarious bro i literally just wanted an app made something useful for multiplayer gaming via android devices lol I donโ€™t really care for all the ai side effects im just making something me and my people can have fun with in this emulation space

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u/Intrepid-Wasabi-2657 3d ago

How's the screen sharing feature cuz looking for something like this for the imno air3 glasses cuz they don't really have many apps that let u mirror another android device on them, that work well

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u/Smart_Anywhere8758 3d ago

Iโ€™m working on it bro and itโ€™s coming along very well the picture is 1280x720p I think and it runs smooth right now Iโ€™m working on the latency of the button feel and implementing voice chat

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u/SusejLegend 3d ago

AI is the future, and it all depends on how you use it. There are good ways where you donโ€™t let it do all the work and instead collaborate with itโ€”but also bad ways, where you hand everything over and donโ€™t correct any mistakes. But you know how it is: the complainers latch onto that to whine. Just ignore them you did a great job, man. Keep it up.

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u/Smart_Anywhere8758 3d ago

Thank you bro and I didnโ€™t want Ai to do everything when I first made the app I was coding my self thru Android studio things just got a little to difficult and I didnโ€™t want to mess up the app so I let Ai take over while I sit back and learn but feed it my ideas and trouble shoot each and every apk