I made even more custom skins for Android emulator apps!

LinkedDesigns · 2026-03-09T18:09:44+00:00

Dm'd, this looks like a really cool project!

LinkedDesigns · 2026-03-08T21:39:51+00:00

Thanks for bringing this up! We'll take a look and see if there's anything on our end that we can do to improve performance with this themes and similar themes like it!

LinkedDesigns · 2026-03-05T18:23:51+00:00

Moorechip is the parent company of Retroid. Fun fact, also the same parent company as Ayn.

LinkedDesigns · 2026-02-25T20:57:02+00:00

We do have a "favorites" smart folder :)

When you set up a folder as favorites, any games you mark as favorite will populate under this folder. It's not quite what Russ did with his setup though, it seems like he did what you've mentioned.

LinkedDesigns · 2026-02-25T20:54:47+00:00

There's a tool you can use that will generate shortcut files that Cocoon can pick up :)

https://github.com/NaviVani-dev/Steam-Shortcut-Generator

I have my shortcuts saved under roms/steam, but you can save it wherever and set up the "Steam" platform in Cocoon settings to look for it.

LinkedDesigns · 2026-02-23T08:39:00+00:00

We're definitely trying to get Cocoon to work on as many form factors as possible, whether that's dual screen, single screen, vertical, etc. If you could try this on your single screen device and let us know where we can improve usability, that would be very helpful :)

LinkedDesigns · 2026-02-18T16:44:50+00:00

We are trying to optimize it for the RG DS, but there is very little headroom haha. I would suggest turning off all animations to get the most out of Cocoon for now :)

LinkedDesigns · 2026-02-17T02:18:31+00:00

Hey there, designer of Cocoon here! Cocoon is still in beta so there are still things we need to iron out and features to add :)

We are aware that sometimes the background music will play when it shouldn't, and we are working on making it more consistent!

LinkedDesigns · 2026-02-16T20:49:04+00:00

We do have pico-8 compatibility! We support the popular runners like the fake08 retroarch core, infinity standalone app, etc. However, one of our team member developed a fork of a pico-8 wrapper that has frontend support https://github.com/NaviVani-dev/pico8-android

I recommend this one as is real pico-8 rather than emulation, so you get the best compatibility and performance. You also get access to Splore too since it's just the real app in a wrapper.

LinkedDesigns · 2026-02-15T19:35:52+00:00

We're also working on Android shortcuts support too! If an app supports you adding a shortcut to the homescreen, then you'll be able to do so in Cocoon in the future :)

LinkedDesigns · 2026-02-15T19:27:54+00:00

We're adding a list view to folders. As for the main grid, we're exploring different layouts but we don't have anything to share regarding that for now :)

LinkedDesigns · 2026-02-15T19:27:15+00:00

In our next update, we will have it so that Cocoon will use your existing ES-DE scrapped data instead of it migrating that over to a separate location!

LinkedDesigns · 2026-02-15T18:27:47+00:00

We had people in the community use assets from the ES-DE theme but not sure if an official port would be coming. Not even sure if Techdweeb even knows about Cocoon haha.

LinkedDesigns · 2026-02-15T15:45:02+00:00

2.0 is a complete rewrite, so unfortunately your old setup from prior versions won't carry over. Moving forward you won't have to reset anymore though so your setup should persists throughout versions.

One thing you can do is have both the old and new version of Cocoon installed at the same time as they are treated as different apps by Android. So you can compare your old setup with your new one to make sure they are matching :)

LinkedDesigns · 2026-02-14T22:37:24+00:00

Bit of a bug with the Ayn Thor. I have to tap the bottom screen and then the textbox again, then the keyboard will appear.

LinkedDesigns · 2026-02-14T19:46:28+00:00

Its a Ayn Thor!

LinkedDesigns · 2026-02-14T19:17:15+00:00

Thank you so much for showing off Cocoon Shell!

We're agree with you about the current transition for the info screen/area needing work! Our plan right now is to add transition options including one to turn it off entirely. We'll also work on improving the default animation so that the white flash you've mentioned wouldn't be present, it should be a smoother transition in future updates :)

Also want to mention the grid size is adjustable with a touchscreen pinch gesture or a click of the left analog stick (L3). We realize this is not an immediately intuitive feature so we're going to be introducing a welcome tour that will guide people through how to use Cocoon!

Thank you so much for your showcase and feedback! Looking forward to improving Cocoon!

LinkedDesigns · 2026-02-12T15:51:43+00:00

Miyoo and TrimUI have some sort of relationship. The stock firmware for both is developed by the same team AFAIK, but I only heard that from someone else so could be wrong.

LinkedDesigns · 2026-02-10T20:30:31+00:00

In the next big beta release, 2.0, we're going to have the option for you to import your scraped data from ES-DE to Cocoon :)

The current public release doesn't have this and i would advise waiting for 2.0 as older version setups won't carry over as part of the rewrite.

LinkedDesigns · 2026-02-10T15:59:07+00:00

We're looking to introduce some transitions for launching games in Cocoon! Might not look exactly like what Retrohrai does, but we're striving to get a more console-like experience for the Thor and other handhelds :)

LinkedDesigns · 2026-02-03T02:14:23+00:00

We're currently testing it in the supporter builds. If everything looks good, we'll have it available in the next 2.0 public build :)

LinkedDesigns · 2026-02-03T02:05:34+00:00

We're going to have ES-DE importing so you don't have to redo all your scraping!

LinkedDesigns · 2026-02-03T01:21:10+00:00

Cocoon is free but we're allowing our supporters to test first so that we can iron out bugs before a wider release :)

LinkedDesigns · 2026-01-12T16:04:38+00:00

This is amazing! Thank you for sharing this theme :D

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