# Cordial: hosting the Roblox Android client on Linux

> Cordial hosts the unmodified Roblox Android client on Linux through a ported bionic linker, ELF import resolution and substitutes for Android JNI and framework calls. Its Rust and C++ runtime supports x86-64 and aarch64 builds, with Wayland as the primary display backend.

- Type: Case study
- Targets: App
- Category: Independent reconstruction cases
- Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
- Sources reviewed: 2026-11-06
- Added to the catalog: 2026-11-09
- Original resource: <https://github.com/luohoa97/cordial>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/luohoa97/cordial/blob/378c83b45a9ecac0f6f6c9f58df9b3da001e0369/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/cordial-roblox-linux-case/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/cordial-roblox-linux-case/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/cordial-roblox-linux-case/index.md)

## Requirements & limits

- **Prerequisites:** Linux on x86-64 or aarch64 and a Roblox Android build are required.
- **Prerequisites:** Building from source requires Clang, GTK4 4.12 or later and libadwaita 1.5 or later.
- **Limits:** The project is experimental; aarch64 has not been tested on real ARM64 hardware, and some display setups have known failures.
- **License:** GPL-3.0-or-later.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/luohoa97/cordial/blob/378c83b45a9ecac0f6f6c9f58df9b3da001e0369/README.md>

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