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Game streaming client for Android TVs, handhelds, tablets, and phones. Pairs with Polaris for controller-first library browsing and session controls, or works with standard Moonlight-compatible hosts. Version 1.4.11 adds Retroid handheld support with edge-to-edge artwork and D-pad fixes, a redesigned NovaHUD with grouped debug readouts, and couch co-op player assignment tools.
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About this app
The streaming client that speaks host.
Nova turns Android TVs, handhelds, tablets, and phones into a polished home for PC game streaming. Pair it with Polaris for a controller-first Library, clear launch plans, and live session controls that stay close while you play. Standard Moonlight-compatible hosts remain supported too.
Nova is matched to Polaris while retaining the standard Moonlight-compatible path:
Play Setup says what will launch. Resolution, frame rate, and encoder are independent per-game choices, host-wide modes remain visibly host-wide, and Auto, Quality, High FPS, and Stability show the resolved host plan before play. Doctor stays evidence-first. Command Center refreshes current host evidence, separates network, host, and client findings, and presents Auto Fix only for a reversible same-stream action the paired host can verify or roll back. Secondary tools stay secondary. Launch, Play Setup, and Reset lead the game menu; Pin to Home Screen and Artwork Studio are compact state-aware actions. Pinned shortcuts use the selected game's artwork. Stale host state fails closed. Nova binds optimization to the exact app and display topology and refuses an older or malformed deterministic launch contract instead of guessing.
What's new
- Retroid handhelds look and play like a console, NovaHUD reads at a glance in every layout, and couch co-op shows who is who. Nova 1.4.11 is matched with Polaris 1.4.11.
- Handhelds
- Hide System Bars takes the clock and navigation bar away from Nova's screens, on by default on gaming handhelds. Sheets and dialogs keep them hidden too, and so does End Session over a game. Artwork runs edge to edge behind the status bar. The Retroid D-pad works right after a touch, without pressing A first. 4:3 screens get layouts that fit: the game page action row, the welcome screen and the game details. NovaHUD
- Minimal, Performance and Debug read the way Slim does: each number glued to its label, and nothing boxed. Made transparent, the HUD no longer shows a faint box behind each number. Debug groups its numbers under HOST, NET and CLIENT, each headed by that layer's health, so the part that went amber and the numbers that explain it line up. It takes half the height it did. Couch Co-op
- Players in Command Center lists who is player 1, 2 and so on, and names a controller that has not pressed a button yet. Reassign lets everyone press a button again in the order you want, without ending the stream. On a handheld whose own controls are built in, those controls stay player 1, and a paired controller becomes player 2 instead of merging with them. Clearer Answers
- Play Setup describes the place you picked for a game, not the host's reason for its default. Players and Reassign work with any host. The rest of couch co-op on the host side, and Host Virtual Display on KDE Plasma, need Polaris 1.4.11.
About this version
- Version
- 1.4.11 (52)
- Size
- 9.41 MB
- Requires Android
- 5.0
- Target SDK
- 21
- Architecture
- arm64-v8a
- Downloads
- 11
- Updated
- Sep 20, 2026
- Package
- com.papi.nova
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