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Apk projects on GitHub
Android APK packaging, decompiling and analysis tooling.
As of , the most-starred Apk projects on GitHub are Magisk (63.3K stars), termux-app (62.9K stars) and jadx (51K stars). GitHub.Locker tracks 38 Apk repositories with 492.8K stars combined. The fastest-growing on October 17 was DroidDeck, with +727 stars in a day.
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DroidDeck
Droid-Deck/DroidDeck · ★ 10.4KDroidDeck brings the SteamOS Big Picture experience to Android, letting you run Valve's Steam client and Windows games via Valve's ARM64 Proton on an Adreno-powered Android handheld.
+124hongguo-desktop-releases
waligoraamodio288-rgb/hongguo-desktop-releases · ★ 3.9KThis is the Windows desktop client for 'Hongguo' (红果), a short-drama (duanju) player app. It lets you browse, search and watch short drama series on a PC with local favorites and resume-watching, without needing an Android emulator.
+113Levyra-deepsound
LUC4N3X/Levyra-deepsound · ★ 824Levyra is an open-source music player for Android and Windows that plays streamed music and your own local files side by side in one library, with synced lyrics, offline downloads and live radio.
+110quiver-launcher
tgeorgiadis/quiver-launcher · ★ 2.3KQuiver Launcher is a desktop app for downloading, installing, and running apps and games from GitHub and GitLab releases, backed by a personal library, a community app catalog, and mod management support.
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38 projects · by stars
- 63.3K
#1 · topjohnwu/MagiskMagisk
Magisk is a suite of open source software for customizing Android, supporting devices higher than Android 6.0. Its four headline pieces are MagiskSU, Magisk Modules, MagiskBoot, and Zygisk.
- 62.9K
#2 · termux/termux-app
termux-app
Termux is a terminal emulator app for Android that gives you a Linux-like environment on your phone, extendable with installable packages.
- 51K
#3 · skylot/jadxjadx
jadx is a Dex to Java decompiler: command line and GUI tools that produce Java source code from Android Dex and Apk files.
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Signal-Android
29.5Ksignalapp/Signal-Android · KotlinSignal Android is a simple, powerful, and secure private messenger that works over your phone's data connection (WiFi/4G/5G). Millions of people use it every day for free messaging and HD voice and video calls.
- 5

Ehviewer_CN_SXJ
27.9Kxiaojieonly/Ehviewer_CN_SXJ · CEhViewer is an unofficial Android app for browsing, searching, and downloading galleries from E-Hentai and ExHentai.
- 6

Apktool
26KiBotPeaches/Apktool · JavaApktool is a command-line tool for reverse engineering third-party, closed, binary Android apps. It decodes an APK's resources to nearly original form and rebuilds the app after you make changes.
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TVAPP
25.3Kyouhunwl/TVAPP · JavaScriptThis is a huge curated collection of Android TV box apps — video/movie players, live TV, karaoke, games and utility tools — bundled with download links, version info, status flags and TVBox/影视仓-style interface source URLs to configure them.
- 8

Mobile-Security-Framework-MobSF
22KMobSF/Mobile-Security-Framework-MobSF · JavaScriptMobSF is an automated, all-in-one mobile security framework: it performs static and dynamic analysis, penetration testing, malware analysis and privacy analysis on Android, iOS and Windows Mobile apps.
- 9

Obtainium
20.5KImranR98/Obtainium · DartObtainium is a free, open-source Android app that installs and updates apps straight from their release pages — GitHub, GitLab, F-Droid and many more — and notifies you when a new release comes out.
- 10

komi-store
19.6Kkomi-store/komi-store · KotlinKomi Store, formerly GitHub Store, is a free open-source app store for browsing, discovering and one-click installing apps from developer releases on GitHub, Codeberg and Forgejo.
- 11

winlator
19.5Kbrunodev85/winlator · CWinlator is a free, open-source Android app that runs Windows (x86_64) applications and games directly on your phone or tablet, using Wine and Box86/Box64.
- 12

BBLL
17.5Kxiaye13579/BBLLBBLL is a third-party Bilibili client for Android TV, built by an individual developer for learning and communication. It is not a hack of the official app: it simply wraps Bilibili's existing APIs to bring Bilibili videos and live streams to the big screen.
- 13

VirtualXposed
16.1Kandroid-hacker/VirtualXposed · JavaVirtualXposed is an Android app, built on VirtualApp and epic, that lets you run Xposed modules on your phone without root, an unlocked bootloader, or a custom system image.
- 14

bytecode-viewer
15.7KKonloch/bytecode-viewer · JavaBytecode Viewer (BCV) is a lightweight Java/Android reverse engineering suite: drag in a Jar or APK and it decompiles, disassembles, searches and debugs it, powered by several open source tools.
- 15

dex2jar
13.1Kpxb1988/dex2jar · JavaA set of command-line tools for working with Android .dex and Java .class files, best known for converting the dex bytecode inside an APK into a jar you can open in a Java decompiler.
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tvbox
12.1Kqist/tvbox · JavaScriptA personal collection of TVBox/OK影视/猫影视(CatVod) configuration files (JSON) that point Android/TV streaming apps to video-on-demand, live TV, and cloud-drive sources — it is not a standalone app itself.
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DroidDeck
10.4KDroid-Deck/DroidDeck · KotlinDroidDeck brings the SteamOS Big Picture experience to Android, letting you run Valve's Steam client and Windows games via Valve's ARM64 Proton on an Adreno-powered Android handheld.
- 18
morphe-manager
9.1KMorpheApp/morphe-manager · KotlinMorphe is a free Android app that patches YouTube, YouTube Music, and Reddit to strip ads and dark patterns, modifying the apps directly on your device - no root required.
- 19

web-to-app
6.8Kshiaho777/web-to-app · KotlinWebToApp is an Android app that builds installable APKs from web projects entirely on your phone — no PC and no remote build server. Beyond wrapping URLs, it runs real server runtimes, ships an anti-censorship network stack, signs for Google Play and supports browser extensions.
- 20
morphe-patches
4.1KMorpheApp/morphe-patches · JavaThis repo holds the patch definitions used to build Morphe, a modified version of the YouTube and YouTube Music Android apps that adds ad-blocking, SponsorBlock, Return YouTube Dislike, and dozens of customization options. It is a continuation of the ReVanced patching work.
- 21

hongguo-desktop-releases
3.9Kwaligoraamodio288-rgb/hongguo-desktop-releasesThis is the Windows desktop client for 'Hongguo' (红果), a short-drama (duanju) player app. It lets you browse, search and watch short drama series on a PC with local favorites and resume-watching, without needing an Android emulator.
- 22

ASC
2.5KMG1937/ASC · PythonDroid ASC is a super FAST, lightweight Android decompiler built for AI agents and mobile researchers: instead of pre-indexing an APK, it extracts and decompiles code on demand in milliseconds.
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quiver-launcher
2.3Ktgeorgiadis/quiver-launcher · C#Quiver Launcher is a desktop app for downloading, installing, and running apps and games from GitHub and GitLab releases, backed by a personal library, a community app catalog, and mod management support.
- 24

Husk
2.2KLeviidev/Husk · JavaHusk is an Android app launcher for iPhone: drop in an APK, tap it, and the Android app opens full-screen, running either natively or through emulation.
- 25

Echo-Music
1.9KEchoMusicApp/Echo-Music · KotlinEcho Music is a free, ad-free Android client for YouTube Music that adds offline downloads, synced lyrics, song recognition, and a cleaner UI on top of the official catalog.
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DSHA
1.5KDSH-APP/DSHA · JavaDSHA is an Android app that lets you run DeepSeek Harness ('dsh'), DeepSeek's official AI coding agent similar to Claude Code, directly on your phone — no root, no Termux, no command line needed.
- 27

Dextop
947NarYuki/Dextop · KotlinDextop is an open-source Android app that creates a virtual display and gives you a desktop-like workspace using only your phone, unlocking the hidden Samsung DeX and desktop capabilities of Android.
- 28

Levyra-deepsound
824LUC4N3X/Levyra-deepsound · KotlinLevyra is an open-source music player for Android and Windows that plays streamed music and your own local files side by side in one library, with synced lyrics, offline downloads and live radio.
- 29

rea
691shijianzhong/rea · TypeScriptREA is a tool that connects your coding agent (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, etc.) to reverse-engineering capabilities, letting it inspect how an app feature works down to native binary level and rebuild it, without needing the original source code.
- 30

Tyranor-Next
668Weiss-UltimateSavior/Tyranor-Next · HTMLTyranor Next is a multi-engine visual novel (Galgame) launcher for Android. Its engine runtime is a reverse-engineered rewrite based on the Tyranor emulator, and it bundles native runtimes for Kirikiri, ONScripter, Tyrano and Artemis, plus library management, cover fetching, save mirroring, and engine tuning.
- 31

fqapp
580ch6vip/fqapp · Dartfqapp is an Android app that aggregates online novels, short dramas, audio dramas, audiobooks, and manga into one reader/player, with all signing, decryption, and caching done locally on the phone rather than on a self-hosted server.
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newtube
530aleixrodriala/newtube · JavaNewTube is an unofficial YouTube client for Android phones and tablets, built on top of SmartTube (the Android TV app) by @yuliskov. It adds a touch interface, its own player and offline saving to SmartTube's engine.
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deepseek-harness-android-app
493woaiys3/deepseek-harness-android-app · JavaIt is an installable Android APK that packages DeepSeek Harness (DSH), an AI agent core, so the AI can directly operate your phone — install apps, tap the screen, change settings, read/edit files — without needing root (via Shizuku) or with root if available.
- 34

my-tv-webview
473zwc456baby/my-tv-webview · KotlinMy TV (我的电视) is a minimalist Android app for watching Chinese TV live streams on phones or Android TVs, with no visible settings, ads, or links, and an auto-updating channel list.
- 35

AppMarket
448YXBwbWFya2V0/AppMarket · KotlinAppMarket is a cross-platform app store client built with Kotlin Multiplatform that aggregates several Chinese Android app stores (Xiaomi, vivo, OPPO, Huawei, Honor, Samsung, TapTap, Wandoujia) so you can search, download and update apps from one place on Android or desktop.
- 36

ServerBox
264madeye/ServerBox · KotlinServerBox is an Android app that turns an old phone into a Linux server without rooting it, running Alpine, Arch, Debian, Kali or Ubuntu with an always-on SSH server.
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DiPlay
115carlito12345/DiPlay · KotlinDiPlay is an independent CarPlay receiver app that runs on compatible Android head units, letting an iPhone's CarPlay screen be mirrored wired or wirelessly without an Apple-certified dongle. This fork adds generic audio coordination, map projection, and Geely-specific vehicle integration.
- 38

fathom
114TraceApps/fathom · DartFathom is an all-in-one client for Jellyfin that puts your movies, shows, music, and Live TV in one desktop or Android app, with optional built-in Seerr requests and a full YouTube client.
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