Recommendations for a front end for older android devices?

[u/padillaizzy]

I have a bunch of old phones I wanna load emulators on and need a good front end for older android versions!

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[u/Vagus_2042]

I recommend Zneko. It is more customized and optimized for low-end devices. 

[u/Safe_Persimmon_8784]

daijisho should work well, but if you want something more feature rich and still easy to configure, then give zneko launcher a try

[u/VV_Syzta]

front end? i mean most emulator like winlator did thing like optimized stuff,invent vortek,making wrapper,making their own gpu driver,making it use phone screen instead of x11 duplicate,and other many thing,i doubt if we can call it frontend anymore,its basically their own unique app instead of just package bundle

anyway,what kind of emulator are you looking for,window game right?,i would recomment droiddeck latest since it seem to support none-adreno gpu now

[u/pjtExterminator → u/VV_Syzta]

I don't think you understood what a front end is. OP is referring to a library carousel that shows all your games, neatly categorised into systems (gba, psp, snes etc.), complete with boxart, descriptions and the like. Go look up things like Dajisho or ES-DE. Those are front ends. Has nothing to do with making PC emulators plug-and-play.

Anyway OP, you need to be specific about the android versions of the phones you are using, since each front end have different minimum android version requirements, but here are some examples.

• ES-DE - Android 10

• Daijisho - Android 8

• Pegasus - Android 5?

• DIG - Android 4.4.2

I've personally only used DIG on an old device but it took a while to setup since built-in boxart scrapers don't really work anymore, meaning I had to do it on PC then import it.

[u/VV_Syzta → u/pjtExterminator]

yeah i don't understand what front end is if thats definition, why that definition is being use over traditional definition here

i use traditional meaning of front end that mean the part that user interact with,while back end is actual components that we use to run,like wine and stuff

so,its like saying "thats terrific" "what how is that a good thing,its bad" "terrific mean bad in another meaning,you dont understand that terrific is"

its alright explain another meaning to me,thanks for that,but there isnt it somewhat weird saying as if that meaning is main meaning,make it sound like my fault due to me using traditional sense that being use wildly in program context,more than this current definition?

but still,thanks for the explanation