Android modding tools that are working on Apple Silicon computers
These tools for modding purposes have been tested on my M1 Mac Mini running Big Sur 11.4
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Il2CppDumper CLI compiled for macOS: Il2CppDumper CLI compiled for macOS and Linux - Platinmods.com - Android & iOS MODs, Mobile Games & Apps
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Il2CppInspector CLI by djkaty compiled for macOS: Il2CppInspector CLI by djkaty compiled for macOS and Linux - Platinmods.com - Android & iOS MODs, Mobile Games & Apps
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Apktool: Apktool - A tool for reverse engineering 3rd party, closed, binary Android apps.
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010 editor: 010 Editor - Pro Text/Hex Editor | Edit 160+ Formats | Fast & Powerful
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Sublime Text: Sublime Text - the sophisticated text editor for code, markup and prose
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Python 3: Download Python
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BetterZip: BetterZip 5 - MacItBetter
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Android Studio: Download Android Studio and SDK tools | Android Developers (SDK and NDK are working fine but AS runs quite slow)
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NDK: https://developer.android.com/ndk/downloads (Separate tool. It’s working as mentioned above)
Not working tools
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NoxPlayer: https://www.bignox.com/ (Says something in chinese and still won’t boot even i gave all permissions, I believe due to missing VT-x support)
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AvaloniaILSpy: https://github.com/icsharpcode/AvaloniaILSpy (Used to view dummydll. It can launch but it doesn’t work well, it can’t decompile anything and randomly crashes)
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AVD Emulator (Build-in on Android Studio): Emulator does NOT work because M1 does not support VT-x
Some apps that are not natively supported for M1/Silicon, will be running on Rosetta 2 which is an Intel x86 emulator and of course there is an impact of performance, but at least better than nothing. Some apps will not run at all. For the complete guide of compatibility, visit https://isapplesiliconready.com/