iMirror — AirPlay Screen Mirroring for Android TV

Mirror your iPhone, iPad, or MacBook to any Android TV. No Apple TV, no ads, no watermark, no subscription.

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Why this exists

Many Android TVs and smart TVs do not come with AirPlay built in. Depending on the brand, the built-in feature might be called AirPlay, AirScreen, Air Mirror, Screen Mirroring, Smart View, or Miracast — and on a lot of budget or regional TV models it is missing entirely, broken, or locked behind a paid app full of adverts.

iMirror solves that. It is an AirPlay receiver you install as an APK on your Android TV, which makes the TV appear in the native Screen Mirroring menu on your iPhone, iPad, or Mac. You then mirror your screen exactly as you would to an Apple TV — no extra app on the phone, no account, no cable.

Features

📱 iPhone & iPad screen mirroring	Appears natively in iOS Control Centre → Screen Mirroring
💻 MacBook screen mirroring	Same AirPlay protocol; works from macOS Control Centre
🔊 Audio	AAC-ELD, AAC-LC and ALAC, with independent A/V start and stop
▶️ Video streaming	YouTube, Photos and other apps that push a stream URL, with play/pause/scrub
🖼️ Photos	Full-screen images sent from the iOS Photos app
⚡ Low latency	Hardware H.264 decode straight to the surface, tuned for interactive use
🔒 Optional PIN pairing	Off by default; turn it on to stop neighbours connecting
🎮 TV remote control	DACP reverse remote — the TV remote drives playback on your phone

No ads, no subscription, no catch

There is no paid tier, no watermark, no resolution cap, and no "upgrade to 1080p" prompt. The app contains no billing, advertising, tracking, or analytics code whatsoever, and it never asks for your location. It is GPL-3.0 open source — read the code and verify that yourself.

Download

Prebuilt, release-signed APKs are committed in apk/ — no build required.

Your device	Download
Most Android TV boxes & sticks, Fire TV	armeabi-v7a
Newer 4K Android TV / Google TV	arm64-v8a
Intel-based TVs, ChromeOS, emulators	x86 · x86_64
Not sure? Use this one	universal — works on everything

Pick universal if you don't know your TV's CPU. See apk/README.md for how to check.

Install on Android TV

Enable Developer options → USB debugging on the TV, then from a computer:

adb connect <your-tv-ip>
adb install -r iMirror-1.0.0-universal.apk

No computer? Use a sideloading app such as Downloader or Send Files to TV to copy the APK to the TV and open it there.

How to mirror

Open iMirror on the TV and leave it on the waiting screen. Then:

From iPhone or iPad — swipe into Control Centre → Screen Mirroring → pick your TV.

From a MacBook or iMac — Control Centre → Screen Mirroring → pick your TV.

_{An Android TV running iMirror, appearing in the native macOS Screen Mirroring menu — no extra software on the Mac.}

The TV shows up under whatever name you set in Settings, alongside real Apple devices. Nothing to install on the phone or Mac.

Your phone and TV must be on the same Wi-Fi network. If a Mac session drops after a few seconds, turn off Mirror audio in Settings — macOS drives realtime audio clock sync harder than iOS does, and the audio path is the less mature half of the stack.

Supported devices

• Android TV / Google TV — Android 7.1 (API 25) and newer
• Amazon Fire TV — sticks and cubes
• Phones and tablets — the same APK installs and runs, handy for testing

Senders: iPhone, iPad, and Mac running macOS 12 or newer.

Known limitations

• Netflix, Disney+, Apple TV+ will not mirror. Apple's FairPlay DRM protects these on every AirPlay path. No open-source receiver can decrypt them — this is not a bug and cannot be fixed.
• Apple Music in-app audio is protected the same way. Route your Mac's system audio output instead, which works.
• Same network required. Apple TV can accept connections off-network via Apple's AWDL protocol; Android hardware cannot do AWDL.
• H.264 only — HEVC is not implemented yet.
• If your router has AP isolation or multicast filtering enabled, the TV will not appear in the AirPlay menu at all. mDNS discovery needs multicast.

Build from source

Requires JDK 17+, and an Android SDK with NDK 28.2.13676358 and CMake 3.22.1.

git clone https://github.com/prat3ik/iMirror.git
cd iMirror
./gradlew assembleDebug

For a signed release build, supply your own keystore via KEYSTORE_PATH, KEYSTORE_PASSWORD, KEY_ALIAS and KEY_PASSWORD.

How it works

The app advertises _airplay._tcp and _raop._tcp over mDNS, presenting itself as an Apple TV so senders select the mirroring protocol. Encrypted H.264 arrives over TCP and is decoded by MediaCodec directly onto a SurfaceView with no intermediate copy.

Contributor note: the two mDNS registrations must stay serialized. Android's NsdManager cannot hold two registrations in flight — the second silently cancels the first and neither callback fires. The failure is invisible in logs and leaves the TV undiscoverable to iOS.

License

GPL-3.0 — see LICENSE.

Forked from PhairPlay (Apache-2.0) and bundles the playfair FairPlay implementation, which is GPL. That component is what obliges the combined work to be GPL-3.0. Full attribution and every third-party component are documented in NOTICE.md — read it before forking.

Trademarks

AirPlay, Apple TV, iPhone, iPad, MacBook and macOS are trademarks of Apple Inc. iMirror is not affiliated with, authorized by, or endorsed by Apple Inc. The protocol is implemented for interoperability only.

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