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Valve will let you side load APKs onto the Steam Frame.

The company confirmed it to Gamers Nexus in a statement:

APKs can also be side-loadable just like any non-Steam applications on Steam Deck. We expect that VR APKs that don’t leverage proprietary APls to just work.

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