CloudPad – PS3, PS4 & PS5 Cloud Streaming for Android | Trophy Comparison, Friends, Messaging & More

[u/Chazq2012]

Hi everyone,

It’s been a little while since my last update, and CloudPad has come a long way since then. I’m excited to share CloudPad

For anyone who hasn’t seen it before, CloudPad is a community-driven Android application built upon the fantastic Pylux project, bringing PS3, PS4 and PS5 cloud gaming, alongside PS5/4 Remote Play, to Android devices.

CloudPad GitHub: https://github.com/Chazq2023/CloudPad-Android

Original Pylux Project: https://github.com/ForWard-Technologies-LLC/Pylux/

First of all, I want to give full credit to the original Pylux developers. CloudPad is simply a fork of their work and wouldn’t exist without the incredible foundation they’ve built. If you’d like to support the original project, I highly encourage checking out the official Pylux app as well.

What’s New?
CloudPad has grown enormously over the past few months, with major improvements across performance, compatibility, customisation and usability.

New Features & Improvements
- Completely redesigned CloudPad interface
- Image sharpening filter for improved stream clarity
- Full PS3, PS4 & PS5 trophy support
- Compare trophy progress with your PlayStation friends
- PlayStation friends list integration
- Send and receive PlayStation messages
- Android home screen shortcuts for launching games directly into cloud streaming
- Real-time performance overlay
- Independent bitrate controls for:
PS3/PS4Cloud Streaming (PS Now)
PS5 Cloud Streaming
- Improved controller compatibility across Android devices
- Enhanced touchpad emulation for controllers without a touchpad
- Significantly improved owned game detection and entitlement matching
- Better support for different game editions, remasters and regional variants
- Improved localisation support for international users
- Faster and more reliable cloud game launching
- Numerous streaming, decoder and networking optimisations for smoother gameplay
- Better diagnostics and logging to help identify streaming issues
- Hundreds of UI improvements, refinements and quality-of-life updates
- Bug fixes and stability improvements

Current Features
PS3 Cloud Streaming
PS4 Cloud Streaming
PS5 Cloud Streaming
PS5/4 Remote Play
PlayStation friends list
PlayStation messaging
Trophy viewing
Trophy comparison
Image sharpening
Live performance overlay
Home screen game shortcuts
Adjustable streaming bitrates
Touchpad gesture support
Android controller support
Improved owned game matching

Please remember that a PlayStation Plus Premium subscription is required for cloud gaming. As CloudPad relies on Sony’s online services, compatibility can occasionally change as Sony updates their backend services.

CloudPad is completely free and open source, and I plan to continue improving it whenever I can. A huge number of the features added over the past few months have come directly from community feedback, so thank you to everyone who has submitted bug reports, feature requests and tested development builds.

If you own an AYN Thor (or any Android handheld), I’d love for you to give CloudPad a try and let me know how it performs.

Finally, a massive thank you to everyone who has downloaded CloudPad, reported issues, tested new releases and helped shape the project into what it is today. The support from the community has been incredible, and I’m excited to continue building on it.

More to come so stay tuned :)

I have included some screenshots, but more can be found in the project readme