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moonlight-android

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GameStream client for Android

ApplicationCategory: Mobile Apps · Media & podcastsOpen sourcedata checked Oct 16, 2026
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Overview

  • android-app
  • android-tv-apps
  • gamestream
  • moonlight
  • nvidia

Installation

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Compatibility

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PlatformStatusArchitectureEvidenceConfidence
AndroidCompatible—official build in release v12.2: app-nonRoot-release.apk0.60
iOSUnknown———

Releases

checked Oct 30, 2026
v12.2.0LatestSep 12, 2026Official source ↗

Files in 12.2.0

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FilePlatformSizeSHA-256Download from the official source
app-nonRoot-release.apkandroid · apk10.6 MBa871f6190365…Official source ↗
app-root-release.apkandroid · apk10.6 MB08ef7ce40747…Official source ↗

Release history

Quality profile

algorithm quality-v1.0 · assessed Oct 16, 2026
Quality Score82
Risk Score0
Confidence 1.00
Quality Score and Risk Score are different measures. A high score does not guarantee safety.

Score components

Maintenance · 2020
last activity 1 days ago
Documentation · 1515
README 2068 chars, description present
Ready to use · 156
install instructions: no; releases: yes
Metadata · 108
3/4 of description, homepage, license, topics
Releases · 1010
10 release(s), latest 33 days ago
Category confidence · 104
classifier confidence 0.35
Adoption · 1010
7284 stars (log-dampened, 10k = max)
License clarity · 55
SPDX GPL-3.0
Community · 55
issues enabled, 1635 forks

License

GPL-3.0
Known licensefrom the repository host

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Sources

github.com/moonlight-stream/moonlight-androidPrimary★ 7,284 starslast activity Oct 14, 2026Primary repository · Confidence 1.00

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README

From moonlight-stream/moonlight-android · license GPL-3.0 · fetched Oct 30, 2026

Moonlight Android

[AppVeyor Build Status] [Translation Status]

Moonlight for Android is an open source client for NVIDIA GameStream and Sunshine.

Moonlight for Android will allow you to stream your full collection of games from your Windows PC to your Android device, whether in your own home or over the internet.

Moonlight also has a PC client and iOS/tvOS client.

You can follow development on our Discord server and help translate Moonlight into your language on Weblate.

Downloads

Building

  • Install Android Studio and the Android NDK
  • Run ‘git submodule update --init --recursive’ from within moonlight-android/
  • In moonlight-android/, create a file called ‘local.properties’. Add an ‘ndk.dir=’ property to the local.properties file and set it equal to your NDK directory.
  • Build the APK using Android Studio or gradle

Authors

Moonlight is the work of students at Case Western and was started as a project at MHacks.

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