BannerHub v6

🔊 Voice room codes — cross-play with BannerHub 3.8.0

The Steam overlay's 🔊 screen can now create or join a voice room by a short code — no Steam friends and no Steam login required. Create mints a 5-character code (or type someone else's to join), and the call box drops straight into the room showing the room code and who's in it, upgrading from a "waiting for others to join…" state to a live call timer the moment someone connects. A BannerHub v6 user and a BannerHub 3.8.0 user can share the same room and talk, in either direction — room codes use the same format on both builds, and it's device-confirmed both ways across different networks. It rides the same WebRTC mesh + Cloudflare Realtime TURN as the 1:1 / party calls; your Steam-native friend & party calls are unchanged.

Same banner.hub package and stable keystore as 1.3.0-608 — installs straight over it.

🎧 In-game Steam voice calls (1:1 & party)

The Steam overlay can now place real voice calls while you're in a game — no root, no extra app. Tap a friend's 🎙 to ring them; the call rides on WebRTC served from the BannerHub Cloudflare Worker (a real HTTPS origin, so the mic actually opens) with Cloudflare Realtime TURN for cross-network / strict-NAT peers — device-confirmed across different ISPs. A draggable call window (independent of the chat panel) collapses to a compact 🎧 N in call tile with a running timer, mute and hang-up; incoming calls pop an Answer / Ignore box labelled with the caller's name (30 s auto-dismiss) with full ringtone settings — synth tones, bundled ringtones, your own MP3 or silent, plus volume, preview and vibrate. Party calls add more friends to a connected call over a peer-to-peer mesh with a live roster, and a 🔗 share-call link lets anyone with a browser (a PC, another emulator, a non-BannerHub device) join as a guest. The collapsed pill shows a green 🎧 party-count badge and a blue unread-message count.

💬 Steam chat overlay v2

The friends/chat overlay (still no root) gains a 3-tab picker (Unicode emoji, Steam emoticons, stickers), send image (hosted via the BannerHub Worker so it sidesteps Steam's flaky web-upload), game-invite cards (rendered from BBCode invites with live / expired state), typing indicators, auto-scroll, and a collapsible pill-opacity slider.

Same banner.hub package and stable keystore as the 1.2.0-608 / 1.1.0-608 line — installs straight over it.

🔒 Firebase Crashlytics fully disabled

Verifying the privacy patches with a live DNS/SNI capture revealed that GameHub's own startup code was re-enabling Crashlytics data collection at runtime, silently overriding the manifest kill-switch — so Crashlytics was still phoning home to firebase-settings.crashlytics.com, firebaselogging-pa.googleapis.com (the Firebase "Firelog" transport) and firebaseinstallations.googleapis.com. The new Disable Firebase auto-init patch stops that runtime re-enable while leaving FirebaseApp initialized (so the app launches normally), so the manifest "off" finally holds. Device-confirmed: those three Firebase hosts no longer appear in the app's traffic, and the Firebase-driven share of play.googleapis.com drops too. Firebase Analytics was already dead via a hard manifest flag — so this completes the Firebase shutoff. See the privacy page.

Same banner.hub package and stable keystore as the 1.1.0-608 / 1.0.0-608 line — installs straight over it.

💬 In-game Steam friends & chat overlay

A new draggable 💬 pill over your game opens your full Steam friends list — avatars, online / in-game presence, and unread badges — and lets you read and reply to chats inline without leaving the game. Conversations render like the native client: left/right message bubbles, sender names, timestamps, inline images and live incoming messages; opening a chat marks it read and clears its badge. Pin it anywhere down the right edge and fade it with a per-pill opacity slider. Just needs you signed into Steam in GameHub — no root required.

🧹 Banner Tools → one "In-game Overlays" menu

The Steam-chat and performance overlays now share a single In-game Overlays tile that opens for everyone. The Steam-chat toggle is free; the performance toggle is root-gated in place (with a tap-to-grant prompt) instead of locking the whole tile — so non-root users get the chat overlay without hitting a root wall.

Same banner.hub package and stable keystore as the 1.0.0-608 line — installs straight over it.

🧱 Rebased onto GameHub 6.0.8

6.0.8 is a tiny upstream bump — the only native change is libsteamkit_core.so (Steam game-library management, plus the GPU-spoof PC-settings keys moved to a …V2 namespace); no Wine, renderer, DXVK or Turnip changes. But XiaoJi's R8 pass reshuffled the obfuscated class/method map again, so all 41 patches were re-fingerprinted against the 6.0.8 bytecode and the build is green end-to-end.

✅ Device-verified on 6.0.8

Re-tested on device after the rebase: the Banner Tools menu + grid, the custom catalog API, local-game import into the library, and PC-accurate controller vibration (per-game mode + live intensity scaling) all confirmed working.

✅ Everything carried forward

GOG integration, the BannerHub Explore homepage, PC-accurate vibration, the in-game performance overlay (root), recording-compatible audio, the offline component picker and the full privacy-hardening stack all ship forward from the 607 line unchanged. As on 6.0.7 there's still no separate Lite build, and the GPU Spoof & Legacy renderer tiles stay retired. Same keystore as the 607/604 lines — installs in place.

🧱 Rebased onto GameHub 6.0.7

First stable on the 6.0.7 base (versionCode 118). Every BannerHub v6 patch was re-fingerprinted against the 6.0.7 bytecode — R8 reshuffle, the :wine process folded into the main process, the Compose menu rewrite — and device-verified end-to-end. Same keystore as the 6.0.4 line, so it installs in place over the 604 series.

🪶 Smaller — and no separate Lite

XiaoJi's own −46% size pass keeps each variant to ~47 MB — already smaller than the old 6.0.4 Lite, so there's no separate Lite build anymore; the concept is absorbed into every variant.

⚠️ GPU Spoof & the Legacy renderer toggle removed

Both are now 6.0.4-only. 6.0.7 ships its own native GPU spoof (so the patch is redundant), and its rewritten Vulkan X-server is incompatible with the old GLES2 libxserver.so / libwinemu.so pair (device-confirmed SIGABRT), so the renderer patches stay pinned to 6.0.4.

✅ Everything else carries over

GOG integration, the BannerHub Explore homepage, PC-accurate vibration, the in-game performance overlay (root), recording-compatible audio, the offline component picker and the full privacy-hardening stack all ship forward unchanged.

• In-game performance overlay (root) — a draggable edge pill slides out CPU-governor → performance and Adreno min-clock boost toggles, with an opacity slider; off by default and auto-reverts on exit.
• Banner Tools moved into the Explorer screen as strictly per-game options.

• Redesigned Explore homepage — wordmark hero, a What's-New article that auto-syncs from release notes, live JSON override, still fully offline-capable.
• In-app update check — installed-vs-latest version readout with an amber update banner and settings cog.
• GOG "Set .exe" / "Copy to Downloads" doubled-directory path fix.

• GOG integration — log in, browse your owned library, download & install GOG games in-app; they launch like any other PC game.
• BannerHub Explore screen (offline, GOG card) replaces the stock discovery feed.
• Recording-compatible audio toggle — routes PulseAudio through the mixer so screen recorders capture in-game sound.

• Imported / Epic / GOG games now launch from Beacon, ES-DE, RetroHRAI, NeoStation & Daijishou.
• New Banner Tools menu groups PC Vibration, GPU Spoof, Renderer & Show Game ID.

• External launcher integration (Beacon device-confirmed; ES-DE/Daijishou shared impl).
• Show Game ID menu row + a View All Games dialog (copy any game's id); proper per-row menu icons; portrait layout for the PC Vibration dialog. (PR #6, TideGear)

• Strict per-game settings store (explicit Save/Cancel, crosses the :wine process boundary).
• GPU Spoof and Legacy renderer (GLES2) toggle, both per-game.
• Sustained-rumble launch fix and an offline component picker for every per-game picker.

• Preload-free vibration — defeats SDL2's auto-stop via an on-disk winebus.so patch, fixing the x86_64 / Box64 launch crash.

• Privacy-hardening stack — 8 functional patches killing Firebase Analytics & Crashlytics, Mob Push, Ad-ID, OTA, heartbeat, GMS Measurement and the analytics /events endpoints, plus a public PRIVACY.md disclosure.
• Show PC Game Settings row for every game type.

• First v6 stable — PC-accurate XInput rumble, a per-game PC Vibration Settings menu row, the BannerHub v6 visual rebrand, and a stable signing keystore enabling in-place updates.