Podroid is built upon the work of many talented open source developers and communities. We are deeply grateful to everyone listed here.
QEMU is the heart of Podroid. It provides the machine emulation and virtualization.
- Original Author: Fabrice Bellard
- Website: https://www.qemu.org
- Repository: https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu
- License: GNU General Public License v2.0 (and later)
- Copyright: The QEMU Project developers
Notable QEMU contributors whose work this project relies on:
- Fabrice Bellard — original author
- The QEMU community — https://www.qemu.org/contributors/
Limbo pioneered running QEMU on Android and solved countless platform-specific challenges that Podroid builds upon. Much of the JNI layer, SDL integration, and Android lifecycle management in this project is derived from Limbo's work.
- Author: Max Kastanas (max2idea)
- Repository: https://github.com/limboemu/limbo
- License: GNU General Public License v2.0
- Copyright: Copyright (C) Max Kastanas 2012 and Limbo contributors
Limbo contributors whose work influenced this project:
- Max Kastanas — principal developer
- All contributors at https://github.com/limboemu/limbo/graphs/contributors
SDL2 is used as the graphics/input backend.
- Author: Sam Lantinga and SDL contributors
- Website: https://libsdl.org
- License: zlib License
- Copyright: Copyright (C) 1997-2024 Sam Lantinga
musl is a lightweight C standard library used for Android compatibility shims.
- Author: Rich Felker and musl contributors
- Website: https://musl.libc.org
- License: MIT License
- Copyright: Copyright © 2005-2020 Rich Felker, et al.
Podroid uses the following AndroidX / Jetpack libraries:
| Library | Copyright |
|---|---|
| Jetpack Compose | Copyright (C) Google LLC |
| Room | Copyright (C) Google LLC |
| Navigation Compose | Copyright (C) Google LLC |
| ViewModel / Lifecycle | Copyright (C) Google LLC |
| DataStore | Copyright (C) Google LLC |
| Hilt (Dagger) | Copyright (C) Google LLC / The Dagger Authors |
All licensed under the Apache License 2.0. See https://source.android.com/setup/start/licenses
The application is written in Kotlin.
- Developer: JetBrains s.r.o.
- Website: https://kotlinlang.org
- License: Apache License 2.0
Podroid itself is developed by excp and contributors.
- Repository: https://github.com/ExTV/Podroid
- License: GNU General Public License v2.0 (or later)
If you have contributed to Podroid and are not listed here, please open an issue or pull request to have your name added.
If you distribute a modified version of Podroid, you must:
- Retain this CREDITS.md and all upstream license notices
- Credit the original QEMU and Limbo projects
- Make your modifications available under GPL v2.0 or later
- Clearly indicate that your version is modified
If you believe your work is used in Podroid but not properly credited, please open an issue at the project repository. We take attribution seriously.