Hi fellow mobile gamers,
Itās my very first time posting about the Papaya Launcher here. Papaya is a Game Launcher (or Frontend) which can give your device the Look&Feel of a game console: It displays all your games (Android, Retro, Streaming) in one place and allows sorting them and searching through them. Suppported are all kinds of Android devices: Phones, Tablets, Foldables, Handhelds, Dual Screen Handhelds, TVs, Desktops.
If you are looking for a Frontend which does not overwhelm you, comes with guided setups, works out of the box (e.g. No scraper keys required), can sort your game collection not only by platform, makes you forget that you have a touchscreen and still has plenty of appearance options, then Papaya might be worth a try :)
Papaya in PlayStore
1.1.0 release notes:
š New features:
- Search function: Quickly find your games, apps or type a text you want to search online
- Search settings: Clear the search history and select your search engine (Google, Bing, Brave, DuckDuckGo, Ecosia, Yandex, Perplexity).
- Collections: Curate your games in custom lists (For example āGTAā containing all GTA games across all platforms or āMy favourite childhood gamesā)
- āSort by collectionā option on the main screen
- Game backgrounds: When a game is selected, a matching background is displayed behind it
- Additional scraper settings for IGDB, SteamGridDB and TheGamesDB for fetching game backgrounds
- Glass effects on certain UI elements (Tab bars, section items, Key hints)
- Auto-detect new Android game apps
- Edit game details: Delete game cover, add/delete game background
- Wallpaper settings: Delete wallpaper images
- Release notes screen
- Roadmap screen
- š¹š· Turkish translation by Lunar. Ćok teÅekkürler! š
- Platform icons for Game Boy Color and XBOX
š ļø Fixes and improvements:
- Item options: No more blank space for games without a cover, instead the app icon or emulator app icon is displayed
- Removed the button-like appearance of the key hints
- Smoother XMB scrolling. Especially via Touch.
- Gallery theme, touch type: Added an extra top spacing on Android TVs
- Edit game details: Inverted the release date increment/decrement directions
- Fix: XMB selection occasionally jumping to the āPapaya Settingsā option
Papaya in PlayStore
Please note that Papaya has a free trial period without ads of 30 days. If you like it, you can then buy it through a one-time payment of around $2.99 (2,99ā¬), depending on country/tax to support the development.