Among the various features introduced by the team of developers of the Mountain View giant with the smartphones of the Google Pixel 6 series, there is also Game Dashboard, which is a solution that, in combination with the APIs of the Android 12 game mode, provides passionate users games have quick access to a number of useful tools, allowing them to make changes to take advantage of optimized performance.
The Google team specified that Game Dashboard will also be implemented on other selected smartphones with Android 12 but at the moment none of the models of the previous generations of the Mountain View giant has received this function.
How to install Game Dashboard on old Google Pixels
While waiting for Google to move in this direction, the community that revolves around Android has set to work, developing a procedure that allows you to install Game Dashboard on Google Pixel 5a, Pixel 5, Pixel 4a 5G, Pixel 4a, Pixel 4, Pixel 4 XL, Pixel 3a, Pixel 3a XL, Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL.
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In practice, it is possible to extract the related configuration data from the Google Pixel 6/6 Pro firmware package and the following is the textual display of the configuration data (the relative file can be downloaded here):
<?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”utf-8″?>
<!– These are configurations that should exist on devices that support Game Dashboard –>
<config>
<!– This feature is meant to be the feature identifying devices that support
Game Dashboard –>
<feature name=”com.google.android.feature.GAME_OVERLAY” />
</config>
As of now, only the Pixel 6 series officially supports the game dashboard, but it can be enabled on other Pixel phones by declaring the “https://t.co/61SlAWlhfY_OVERLAY” feature.
Add this code snippet to an XML file, call it “game_overlay”, and push it to /product/etc/sysconfig. pic.twitter.com/uGMnANp2Ru
— Mishaal Rahman (@MishaalRahman) November 15, 2021
You need to save the code snippet above as “game_overlay.xml” and place it on your Pixel device at / product / etc / sysconfig (to do this you need to have root-access).
Probably the owners of old Google Pixel will receive the Game Dashboard function with the next Pixel feature Drop update but, until then, the most impatient can resort to this alternative solution and immediately take advantage of the games optimized for the new Game Mode API.