Xbox 360 emulation on Android, tuned for Snapdragon and Adreno.

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Xendroid+ is an Xbox 360 emulator for Android, created and maintained by phforner0. It continues the XenDroid project and builds on Xenia, with an interface redesigned for phones, tablets and controllers, per-game tuning applied automatically, and performance and accuracy work measured frame by frame on real hardware.

Note

Xendroid+ is experimental. How a game runs depends on the game, the device and the GPU driver: some titles run well, others still show glitches or do not boot.

Highlights

A new interface

• Library with search by name or Title ID, favorites, sorting, play time and Recently played, fully usable with a controller.
• In-game menu with graphics, HUD, controls and session pages, opened from the touch handle, Back/Guide or the shoulder buttons.
• First-run assistant, gamer profiles, save backup and restore (with a recovery journal and a trash), title update and DLC installation.
• Touch controls with a layout editor and optional adaptive sticks.

Performance, measured on device

• Per-game settings applied when a title starts, for the games that need them: Forza Horizon, Forza Horizon 2, Gears of War 3, Crysis 3, Need for Speed: Most Wanted, Rise of the Tomb Raider and more.
• Fewer EDRAM transfers on the host GPU: transfers a draw overwrites are skipped, and in the games that allow it, depth drawn at 4× MSAA lands straight in its 1× surface and predicated tiling bands are drawn once.
• Exact shader fast paths (texture sign decoding), texture loads straight into images, direct host resolves, and Turnip's shader compiler set up for many small draws.
• A lighter command thread: resolves are copied back into game memory only once the game reads them, commands go out in small batches when the GPU runs out of work, and on Turnip the constant buffers use dynamic offsets and texture descriptor sets are reused.
• ARM64 JIT work: cheap exact NaN handling, ABA-safe guest reservations and VMX denormal flushing.
• Asynchronous shader compilation with a persistent pipeline cache.

Accuracy and stability

• Rendering fixes found with frame dumps and checked on device: Crysis 3's lighting and textures, Rise of the Tomb Raider's main menu and first level, and Gears of War 3's colors.
• The image no longer freezes after minutes of play on Android (FIFO presentation).
• Audio hiccups fade out and back in instead of clicking, on AAudio and OpenSL ES.

Tools

• Performance HUD (FPS, frame time, CPU, GPU, RAM, temperatures) and per-game frame-rate limits (unlimited, or 30 to 120 FPS).
• Output scaling and sharpening, including Snapdragon Game Super Resolution.
• Driver manager for Adreno/Turnip drivers, global or per game, with SHA-256 checks.
• Play history with frame-time percentiles, a diagnostics bundle to share, local compatibility notes and community settings profiles.
• Frame generation (experimental, off by default): Win-FG and LSFG (with your own Lossless.dll) turn a 30 fps game into 60 on the screen, and the HUD shows both rates.

Performance snapshot

Measured on a POCO F7 (Snapdragon 8s Gen 4, Adreno 825) with Turnip, in development builds (October 2026). Your device, driver and game version will change these numbers.

Game	Tested in	Frame rate	Notes
Forza Horizon	Racing	30 fps (game cap)	~18 ms of GPU time per frame
Forza Horizon 2	Racing	27–30 fps	Forza Horizon's settings applied
Gears of War 3	Campaign, Versus	30 fps (game cap)	GPU 40 → 28 ms per frame in its heaviest scene; washed-out colors fixed
Crysis 3	First checkpoint	30 fps (game cap)	Up from ~22 fps; lighting and textures fixed
Halo 4	Campaign	~26–30 fps	Video cutscenes fixed; a small shadow flicker remains
Need for Speed: Most Wanted	Racing	~21 fps	Without forcing the GPU clock (was ~12 fps); boot and gameplay crashes fixed
Rise of the Tomb Raider	Main menu, first level	~20 fps	Renders now: the menu was a flat blue screen
Sonic Unleashed	Gameplay	50–52 fps
Halo: Reach	Menus, intro	30 fps	Dips to 19 fps
Grand Theft Auto IV	Menus, intro	~22 fps	Limited by the GPU command thread
Red Dead Redemption	Menus, intro	~25 fps	Limited by the GPU command thread

The measurements, methods and optimization plans are in performance-tests/; per-game settings are explained in GAME_COMPAT.md.

Requirements

• Android 10 or newer on 64-bit ARM (arm64-v8a).
• A Vulkan GPU. Adreno 7xx and 8xx with the Turnip driver are the main target; a Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 or newer is recommended.
• Your own Xbox 360 games, dumped from discs or consoles you own: disc images (ISO), ZAR archives or Games on Demand (GOD) packages.

Getting started

1. Install the Xendroid+ APK.
2. Open it and follow the first-run assistant: pick your games folder, or let it create one along with folders for title updates and DLC.
3. Choose a game in the library. While playing, open the in-game menu from the touch handle, or with Back/Guide on a controller.

Building from source

Xendroid+ builds with JDK 21, the Android SDK and NDK, and the SPIR-V shader toolchain. The full setup for Linux and Windows hosts is in BUILD.md:

./gradlew :app:assembleRelease

Documentation

• BUILD.md: building, testing and installing.
• GAME_COMPAT.md: per-game settings and how they are loaded.
• performance-tests/: device measurements and the optimization plans behind each change.
• docs/ui-redesign: the interface redesign; docs/experiencia-em-jogo-status.md: feature status and pending validation.

Credits

• Xendroid+: created and maintained by phforner0.
• XenDroid, the original Android port, by rfandango.
• Xenia and Xenia Canary, the Xbox 360 emulator research project the emulation core comes from.
• Frame generation, fonts, upscaling and the other third-party components keep their own licenses, listed in THIRD-PARTY-NOTICES.md.

Releases

Releases carry a SemVer version:

• Stable releases (1.2.0) are published by hand from main: Actions → Xendroid+ → Run workflow, with release set to patch (fixes), minor (new features) or major (a big change). The app's Stable update channel follows them, and their notes gather everything since the previous stable release.
• Every change merged into main publishes a preview of the next minor version (1.3.0-preview.88, 88 being the build number), offered by the app's Preview channel.

Release tags keep the XenDroid-v<build>-<commit> form the app's updater reads; stable releases also get a v1.2.0 tag.

License

Xendroid+'s own code is Copyright (C) 2026 phforner0 and the Xendroid+ contributors, licensed under the GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 or later. Anyone who distributes a modified version, or lets people use one over a network, has to publish its source code under the same license. Code that came from Xenia, XenDroid and the third-party components keeps its own license; see THIRD-PARTY-NOTICES.md.

Legal

Xendroid+ is a non-commercial, open-source project for research, software development and performance testing. It is not affiliated with or endorsed by Microsoft; Xbox and Xbox 360 are trademarks of Microsoft Corporation.

The project does not condone piracy. No games, disc images, firmware, system files or keys are included or distributed. Use only backups of games you own, dumped from hardware you own.

Community

Join the discussion on Discord.

Xendroid+ is free. If you'd like to help pay for its build servers and test devices, you can support it on Buy Me a Coffee. It's voluntary and doesn't unlock any features.