# Pocket Wormhole: an Android port of the FTL engine reimplementation

> Pocket Wormhole brings the Project Wormhole reimplementation of FTL: Faster Than Light to Android using the player's ftl.dat. Its port replaces desktop OpenGL, OpenAL, GLFW and Slick2D interfaces with Android graphics, audio and touch input layers, and adds save export and import for compatible game runs.

- Type: Case study
- Targets: Game
- 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/adamkulik/pocket-wormhole>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/adamkulik/pocket-wormhole/blob/07769b1f45b79a8f078b46d4ea17d4b9482f6f5b/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/pocket-wormhole-ftl-android-case/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/pocket-wormhole-ftl-android-case/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/pocket-wormhole-ftl-android-case/index.md)

## Requirements & limits

- **Prerequisites:** Android 8.0 or newer and a GLES 3.0 GPU.
- **Prerequisites:** A personally owned FTL copy supplying ftl.dat.
- **Prerequisites:** Building requires JDK 17 and Android SDK platform 34 with build-tools 34.0.0.
- **Limits:** XSLT-based mod patches are unsupported; exports transfer faithfully only at a new sector's entry beacon.
- **License:** GPL-2.0 or later.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/adamkulik/pocket-wormhole/blob/07769b1f45b79a8f078b46d4ea17d4b9482f6f5b/README.md>
2. <https://github.com/adamkulik/pocket-wormhole/blob/07769b1f45b79a8f078b46d4ea17d4b9482f6f5b/NOTICE.md>

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