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Stable builds are cut from master. Nightly tracks the last commit and can break between releases.

Latest stable
v0.1.2
Releases
3
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Latest stable

v0.1.2

Published Nov 03, 202630.7 MB APK32 downloads
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Shared storage is now one place instead of two. The guest's Java half and its native half used to disagree about the root of /sdcard, so a game that built its data path from the framework looked into an empty tree and fell back to the Google Play expansion downloader.

What changed

  • /sdcard means /sdcard/armbat everywhere: Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory(), hard-coded /sdcard, /mnt/sdcard and /storage/emulated/0 in the archive's dex, and the kernel's path layer for native code.
  • Per-app trees keep their place: /sdcard/Android/data/<package> and /sdcard/Android/obb/<package> still map to /sdcard/armbat/android/{data,obb}/<package>.
  • Fixed: UE3 titles that validate unpacked data through the framework (The Gods HD checks /sdcard/CalviGames) pass the check and start their engine.
  • Kernel sockets for LAN and internet, with a guest DNS resolver shim.
  • Screen: fixed the display size a guest is told, added a widescreen option.
  • Unity: fixed loading and touch delivery.
  • GLES: added missing entry points that older engines probe before they start.
  • Debug build installs beside the release one.
Earlier builds2
v0.1.1Oct 27, 202630.6 MB APK60 downloads
  • file: armbat-0.1.1-2.apk
  • size: 30M
  • sha256: d9efed7fb4e7f3fe7f662e33e6a6da7efcc39c102cc361d1e76f4161a4344f46
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v0.1.0Oct 27, 202630.6 MB APK12 downloads

First public build of Armbat - a container that runs 32-bit ARMv7 Android apps and games on 64-bit devices that have no 32-bit ABI at all. No root, no second Android, no virtual disk.

What works

  • Real bionic userland: linker, libc, libm, libdl and C++ runtime from the Android 7.0 armeabi-v7a system image.
  • A32 -> ARM64 JIT on Dynarmic; the guest's Java code runs on the system ART.
  • EGL/GLES on the device GPU, OpenSL ES audio, MotionEvent pass-through with multitouch, rotation.
  • ELF32 loader (dlopen/dlsym, ARM relocations), Linux ARM syscall layer, JNI bridge.
  • Library UI: import an APK, launch it, delete it; data, saves and OBB live under /sdcard/armbat.
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Nightly / Updated Nov 06, 2026

Armbat nightly

Automatic build of the latest commit. Not a stable release.

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