The desktop RuneLite client, running on Android.
RunavaLauncher is a single-APK port of the desktop RuneLite client - the open-source third-party Old School RuneScape client - to Android. It launches the upstream RuneLite JAR inside a JRE 25 packaged with the app and renders it through a software AWT pipeline (Caciocavallo TTA), so you get the same RuneLite UI and the same plugin ecosystem you have on desktop, on your phone, without proot, without X11, without a separate runtime install.
Everything is bundled. Install one APK, tap the icon, log in, play.
Grab the latest APK from the releases page and sideload it. ~125 MB, arm64-v8a only.
- Full RuneLite client - login, world hop, chat, walking, combat, plugins, everything
- The entire RuneLite plugin sidebar - same versions as desktop
- Audio - sound effects, music, plugin sounds, through Android's AAudio output
- Both orientations - the game reflows when you rotate the device, no bars or stretching
- Touch controls for camera, taps, right-click, pinch-zoom
- Fullscreen, immersive layout; system gestures excluded from the right-edge UI strip
- Survives backgrounding - switch apps, take a call, come back, the game is still running
- Material You themed launcher icon
- Software-rendered. RuneLite's GPU plugin (
librlawt.so) needs glibc + X11 + GLX symbols that Android doesn't have. The CPU renderer is what runs. Frame rate is fine on a modern phone, but you won't hit desktop GPU-plugin numbers. - Portrait is tight. RuneLite's UI is built for landscape; in portrait everything reflows to fit, but the sidebar is necessarily narrower.
| Gesture | Action |
|---|---|
| 1-finger tap | Left click |
| 1-finger long-press (≥ 200 ms, no movement) | Right click (opens OSRS context menu) |
| 1-finger drag in game world (left ~75% of screen) | Camera rotate (arrow keys) |
| 1-finger drag on RuneLite UI (right sidebar) | Left button held - inventory drag, minimap drag, etc. |
| 2-finger drag | Camera rotate (arrow keys) |
| 2-finger pinch | Zoom in / out (mouse wheel) |
| ☰ menu (top-left) | Drawer: keyboard, copy/paste, virtual mouse toggle, log viewer, force-close |
Starting a camera drag also re-focuses the OSRS canvas, so arrow keys still rotate the camera even with the plugin search field open.
./gradlew :app_pojavlauncher:assembleDebugGitHub Actions also builds a debug APK on every push and on a daily 04:00 UTC cron. The latest release tag is updated automatically from main.
Fork of PojavLauncher / Amethyst-Android, gutted down to the JVM-hosting path:
- FCL-Team's OpenJDK 25 for Android (
aarch64, bundled as a JRE tar.xz). AngelAuraMC's JDK 17 and 21 both have a JNI handle-list bug in theirlibjvm.sothat fires under Cacio's AWT peer calls - FCL-Team is a different OpenJDK port and dodges it. - Caciocavallo TTA as the AWT toolkit (no X11), with our
TextureViewrendering Cacio's frame buffer as the on-screen surface. runelite_audio/-javax.sound.sampled.spi.MixerProvideron the JVM boot classpath, one shared AAudio output stream with a Java-side software mixer.write()never blocks the game thread.runelite_window_agent/--javaagentloaded into the JVM. Sizes the RuneLite JFrame to the current orientation's visible aspect, periodically repaints to keep plugin sidebar icons fresh, refocuses the OSRS canvas on every camera drag, and runs a file-based IPC poller for mouse-wheel / right-click / FOCUSGAME / RESIZE events.
The :runelitegame Android process is separate from :launcher and is kept alive by a foreground service so Android doesn't reap the JVM mid-session.
GPL-3.0, inherited from upstream PojavLauncher. RuneLite itself is BSD-2-Clause and is downloaded at runtime, not bundled.
- RuneLite - the actual client
- PojavLauncher - the JVM-on-Android scaffolding
- Amethyst-Android - the PojavLauncher fork this codebase started from
- Caciocavallo - pure-Java AWT toolkit, no X11 required
- FCL-Team/Android-OpenJDK-Build - the OpenJDK 25 port for Android we bundle
Not affiliated with Jagex or the RuneLite project. Use of RuneLite is subject to Jagex's third-party client guidelines.