ModAVDAn Android emulator for Windows

Built from the AOSP Android Emulator plus a set of patches, and compiled by the project itself. It runs on Windows today; more platforms are planned.

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Windowed or headless

Run it with a window as an ordinary emulator, or without one. The bundled manager, the CLI or an automation tool such as AUTO-MAS starts it and shuts it down when you are done.

Survives a force-kill

The data disk is handed to Android write-through, so force-killing the emulator does not corrupt the virtual disk's metadata. Crash handling no longer exits at random.

Uses fewer resources

Memory that Android frees goes back to Windows. A new instance no longer takes up the full data disk limit on its first boot. The graphics staging buffer grows on demand.

No data sent to Google

The emulator does not upload usage statistics or crash reports to Google, does not check Google for updates, and does not download feature flags from Google. Android and its apps use the network as usual.

arm64-only games run too

The bundled arm64 execution bridge lets some games that only have an arm64 build run on an x86_64 system image.

Tested games

All patches are public

The changes to QEMU, gfxstream and Crashpad are published as patches, and every release comes with the full matching source.