# kksimp/Mac.apk

> Mac.apk runs Android apps natively on Apple Silicon Macs without an emulator or virtual machine, launching them as ordinary macOS processes. It is aimed at Mac users who want to use Android apps directly on their desktop.

- Magnitude: 4.9 out of 10 — Breakout
- Stars: 358 total · +198 stars measured 2026-10-19, 18:27–20:45 UTC, ≈ 223 by evening
- Star trust: star growth looks organic
- Category: Apps · Language: Java · License: AGPL-3.0 · Created: 2026-05-19 · Last push: 2026-10-19
- GitHub: https://github.com/kksimp/Mac.apk · Homepage: https://projects.voltare.us/macapk.html · Page: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/kksimp/Mac.apk

## Useful for

- Install an APK and launch it as a native macOS window with Dock integration
- Test whether a specific Android app runs on Apple Silicon using the compatibility list
- Build Mac.apk from source to study or modify the Android framework reimplementation

## Why it’s here

- Star-counter measurements on 2026-10-19 (UTC), 18:27–20:45: 160 → 358 stars (+198). This is the change over that interval.
- Estimated end-of-day forecast: about +223 stars, using observed gains and the previous day.
- Before this, the repository barely got any stars — about 2 per day.
- Hacker News: “Android apps running native on macOS” — 174 points, 4 h ago.
- About 45 forks a day — people are taking the code.

## Star trust

Star growth looks organic.
- Fewer forks than usual: 6 for 358 stars.

Star-trust labels are heuristics based on the repository’s behavior, not a check of every stargazer.

## Numbers

- Forks: 6
- Issues and pull requests: 15
- Watchers: 0
- Average over the last week: 33 per day
- Usual pace: 4 per day
- Stars in the last hour (measured): 76
- Latest release: v1.0.2237 (2026-10-19)

## Stars per day, last 30 days (oldest → newest, today is partial)

2026-09-20 … 2026-10-19: 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 27, 14, 7, 11, 1, 1, 1, 3, 4, 4, 7, 1, 0, 4, 0, 3, 1, 198

## Hacker News

- Android apps running native on macOS — 174 points, 55 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50154624

## Spotted in now

- Spotted on Hacker News

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Magnitude (0–10) measures how fast and how unusually interest in a repository is growing right now. It is not a quality score.
Days are UTC. “So far today” is a fact; “expected by the end of the day” is a forecast.
Summaries and use cases are written by an LLM (DeepSeek V4.1 Flash) from the README and may be inaccurate: verify specific claims (benchmarks, speed, hardware) in the repository itself.
Data as of 2026-10-19 20:58 UTC, updated every 30 minutes.