Boat

Environment for running Minecraft Java Edition on Android

From AOF-Dev·Updated June 25, 2026·View on GitHub·

- [Introduction](#Introduction) - [Building](#Building) - [Related Projects](#Related-Projects) - [License](#License) The project is written primarily in Java, distributed under the GNU General Public License v2.0 license, first published in 2020. Key topics include: android, boat, glfw, java, minecraft.

Boat - Helper library for Android

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Introduction
Building
Related Projects
License

Introducion

Boat provides an environment to run some interesting programs on Android. It evolves from zhuowei's Boarwalk.
Initilaly, Boat is just for playing Minecraft Java Edition on Android. Currently, we still test Boat with Minecraft JE. However,
Boat is NOT a Minecraft launcher. Please have a look on Related Projects.

Building

It is very simple to build the aar package. NOTE，only support aarch64。32bit arm has been abandoned and is never tested.

export ANDROID_SDK_ROOT=Your Android SDK path

./gradlew assembleDebug

MCinaBox. A Minecraft Java Edition Launcher on Android. Using Boat to provide runtime environment.
xserver-xboat。 X server on Android, ported from Xephyr.
GLFW。 Create and manage OpenGL context with GLFW! Most of APIs work!