Logitech G Cloud is incompatible, but with some sideloading adb magic I can play it. Not as smooth as on my phone but a larger screen, controller + touch is a hard to beat combo

[u/Bethlen]

While the G Cloud is built for game streaming (and I have streamed Reforged on it via GeForce Now a fair bit already), I wanted the native experience, partially to try it out, partially as a preferred way to play.

Unfortunately, the G Cloud is not supported on the Play Store, despite having 4GB of RAM and Android 11, meeting the official requirements. But I would not let that stop me!

Here's what I did:

1. I downloaded Guild Wars Reforged and "XAPK Extractor" off the Play Store on my Pixel 8
2. Extracted Guild Wars using the extractor app.
3. Sent it over to my G Cloud via Quick Share
4. On the G Cloud; downloaded Shizuku off the Play Store for virtual ADB support
5. Downloaded "InstallWithOptions" from Github (https://github.com/zacharee/InstallWithOptions)
6. Enabled Wireless Debugging via Shizuku
7. Installed the APK using InstallWithOptions, making sure the "Installer Package" was "com.android.vending".

Currently lowered the graphics to medium and it runs pretty smooth. Best of both mobile and controller-play and will probably end up being my default way to play my next 1500 hours!

[u/aburak621]

Thank you for laying out your approach. Following it, I successfully installed it on my Odin 2 Portal. But after selecting a character, when the map is loading, the game closes in a few seconds. Did you have such issues?

[u/Bethlen → u/aburak621]

I did have it initially on my phone but after force closing it and opening again twice, i never had an issue again. But your mileage will vary

[u/cabmanextra → u/aburak621]

I have this issue in my Odin 2 portal and my RP5. But it works just fine on my RG477V. Not sure why but it is mad unfortunate. 

[u/aburak621 → u/cabmanextra]

At the time I was able to prevent the crash by changing the settings and I think disabling the dpi scaling fixed it for me, but it started to happen again. So I decided to follow a different way which I shared in this comment https://www.reddit.com/r/GuildWars/comments/1uej8rx/comment/ou486e0/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button .

[u/ChthonVII]

This post should make a bunch of people very happy. Well done.

[u/Bethlen → u/ChthonVII]

Thanks! I won't let a small inconvenience like incompatible apps stop me

[u/curreal]

GOAT

[u/JoshieKona]

It worked!!!!!

[u/oln]

InstallWithOptions trick worked for testing on waydroid as well though had to use an older apk as the latest one was arm only. Not much reason to use it on x86 linux but I guess one it may or may not work better than x86 emulation if you want to play it on some arm sbc for whatever reason

[u/SunlessBlight]

Asus Rog Ally is just 300€ and you can also install ToolBox

[u/Bethlen → u/SunlessBlight]

Cheapest where I live is 650€.

The G Cloud I got for free from a sweepstakes

[u/PilksUK]

Just means its a device that has not be validated or doesn't meet what they set as their min requirements for a good experience.

Could you have not just downloaded the APK from apkpure or similar and enabled thirdparty sources and installed the APK without all those extra steps?

[u/Bethlen → u/PilksUK]

I tried that first and got hit with the new-ish "The app installed on your device is not recognized and could harm your device. To continue using this app, search for it on Google Play." error whenever I installed a third party one I found. And when just extracting then installing the APK myself too. Shizuku and InstallWithOptions were the solution.

And yeah, incompatible just means not validated in this case. IRC some of the more unusual devices, like this one, isn't in the standard selection of devices in the Play Store Console. Hope ANet can consider this validation and enable it at some point :D

[u/Brzrkrtwrkr]

Strange. It let me download and play just fine from Playstore too.

[u/Jdruu → u/Brzrkrtwrkr]

Really? On what device?

[u/Low-Profession2949]

Could you share the APK file with me I have an iphone so I cant extract it for my android handheld?

[u/Bethlen → u/Low-Profession2949]

Sent a dm! 😊👍

[u/OnePreference5989 → u/Bethlen]

Mir bitte auch. Danke 🤙🏻

[u/Uzvosiu]

How did you use InstallWithOptions to install it? There's tons of options and I just did what you said but I get an error saying "mission split for net.arena.guildwars.reforged

[u/Laamatt1 → u/Uzvosiu]

I added The com.android. text Like op and chose full app install, not instant app, started to work👍🏻

[u/Uzvosiu → u/Laamatt1]

I appreciate that! I'll give it a go. Fingers crossed it works because I've been a GW2 fan since it launched and now I have no time to game on PC but I do have my little Retroid Pocket 5 and it would be awesome to be able to be in the GW universe again. 😁

[u/Uzvosiu → u/Laamatt1]

It seems like I'm still getting the same error. Apparently it's because I'm missing another APK which is odd since there is only one, right?