A couple of times I have been playing something and was so deep in the game I didn’t realize the battery was going down faster than I realized and the deck decided to turn off.

I have been thinking it would be nice for me to have the battery level visible even when running a game in full screen mode. I have an app on my phone with permission to display on top of other apps that draws a line around the camera cut out showing the battery charge level no matter what I am doing on the phone. In some older phone with no cutout I used to have a horizontal line in the top of the screen.

I would love to have this on the deck. Does anyone know if it exists? I’ve been searching with no result. If it doesn’t exist, I wonder how difficult it would be to implement it… I have no clue how to have it display on top of everything though.

The image shows one of the old apps I used to have to do this on my phone.

  • Björn@swg-empire.de
    5·
    1 day ago

    The Deck uses MangoHUD to draw FPS over the screen. Maybe it can be utilised to show the battery.

    • yyprum@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
      2·
      2 hours ago

      Yeah others are mentioning too, I’ll need to study a bit on this mango stuff to see what I can get away with :)