harkhowalia-1/MacSubsystemForAndroid
Run Android apps on your Mac like Mac apps: each in its own window with its own Dock icon, on Apple silicon. Notifications, game controllers, privacy controls. Free & open source (LineageOS + QEMU + scrcpy).
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Download for Mac · Website · Guide · How it works Run Android apps on your Mac like Mac apps. Mac Android Subsystem is a free, open-source way to run Android apps on Apple silicon Macs. Every Android app gets its own window, its own Dock icon and a place in Launchpad and Spotlight, with notifications, copy and paste, game controllers and Mac-style privacy controls. Think of it as the Windows Subsystem for Android, made for macOS. Double-click an .apk and the app installs and opens. Android (LineageOS, no Google apps) runs quietly in the background on Apple's Hypervisor framework, at close to native speed. Mac Android Subsystem (MAS) is also what Android calls itself: the device name in Android's settings, Bluetooth and the model it reports. The menu bar item and the Settings window hold the rest: Always Ready, what happens when the last app closes (Automatic, As…
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- Mac Android Subsystem (MAS)
- Features
- How it fits into macOS
- Requirements
- FAQ
- Repository layout
- Building
- The Android image
- Releases
- Renaming
- License
- Support
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What this repository does
Run Android apps on your Mac like Mac apps: each in its own window with its own Dock icon, on Apple silicon. Notifications, game controllers, privacy controls. Free & open source (LineageOS + QEMU + scrcpy).
Repository facts
- Owner
- harkhowalia-1
- Primary language
- Swift
- Stars
- 399
- Forks
- 16
- Open issues + pull requests
- 4
- License
- GPL-3.0
- Archived
- No
- Default branch
- main
- Created
- 2026-10-15T03:59:55.000Z
- Last push
- 2026-10-21T21:20:59.000Z
Topics and intended use
Owner-supplied topics: android, android-apps, android-emulator, android-on-mac, apk, apple-silicon, f-droid, hypervisor, lineageos, liquid-glass, macos, menu-bar-app, open-source, qemu, scrcpy, swift, swiftui, virtualization, windows-subsystem-for-android, wsa
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