Meta ports Cuttlefish Android virtual devices to Apple silicon Macs
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Meta has ported Cuttlefish, AOSP's virtual-device framework, to run natively on Apple silicon Macs. The work revives QEMU support and makes vhost-user buildable on macOS, and adds HVF memory-region tracking slots, a native Cocoa display with BGRA rendering and mouse-click-as-touch, plus Darwin build and code-signing support. Meta says the unified platform cuts maintenance and infrastructure costs and lets developers run the same Cuttlefish devices used in CI. The port is being distributed in two parts: qemu-wearables, a Meta-maintained QEMU fork carrying its commits, and cuttlefish-wearables, patch files with instructions for patching Android/AOSP. Meta says it is exploring contributing the changes upstream to QEMU and AOSP; until then, developers can use its fork and patch set.
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- Meta Engineering BlogCuttlefish on Mac: Meta ports Android's virtual device framework to Apple silicon
Meta has ported Cuttlefish, AOSP's virtual-device framework, to run natively on Apple silicon Macs, reviving QEMU support and making vhost-user buildable on macOS. The work adds HVF memory-region tracking slots, a native Cocoa display with BGRA rendering and mouse-click-as-touch, plus Darwin build and code-signing support. Meta says the unified platform cuts maintenance and infrastructure costs and lets developers run the same Cuttlefish devices used in CI.
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