Most Wanted Android port

Most Wanted for Android is the most downloaded of the three ports: 320,803 downloads across 6 releases since October 24, 2026. It runs the Xbox version of Most Wanted (Black Edition, USA), statically recompiled to C++ ahead of time and drawn with Vulkan. This page follows the README and release notes of v1.3.0.

Download Most Wanted for Android v1.3.0

Published November 1, 2026, 14:56 UTC. One APK for 64-bit phones; there is no 32-bit build.

What’s new in v1.3.0

• Movie crash fixed: the game no longer closes when a movie starts or stops (at boot, after a race) on phones with several cores.
• Saves in MostWanted/hdd: saves and logs now sit in the MostWanted folder, so they survive an uninstall; all files access is required.
• New cheats: No Traffic and Auto Shift in drag races; LT and RT work in the pause menu’s Performance Tuning.
• Crash logs: Android’s crash records are written to MostWanted/logs as crash_<date>.txt on the next start (Android 11+).

The README lists fixes already made for the next release: force closes while loading, in free roam, at the start of the career and after Blacklist races (the game’s threads now lock the shared archive and pools), and a music crash after a boss race.

Install and the MostWanted folder

1. Install MostWanted-1.3.0.apk after checking its SHA-256 (6531e85ea7c73ef618892db9b57212dd6740552f78dc36182bbf57fbceb8d270).
2. Open Most Wanted and allow all files access when it asks (on Android 10, the storage permission). The app creates /storage/emulated/0/MostWanted.
3. Copy your game into that folder: the disc image, or default.xbe with the NFS folder beside it. A MostWanted folder at the top of an SD card works too.
4. The game starts as soon as it finds the files. The gear at the top left (or F10 on a keyboard) opens the settings panel.

/storage/emulated/0/MostWanted/        ← create by the app once access is allowed
  default.xbe   NFS/                   ← your Xbox files (or one .iso image instead)
  hdd/                                 ← saves (kept if the app is uninstalled)
  backups/saves/                       ← last ten changed saves
  logs/                                ← mostwanted.log, crash_<date>.txt
  music/                               ← your songs for My Music
  mods/                                ← add-on cars built by Mods Loader
Android/data/com.racas.mostwanted/files/
  mostwanted.toml  android.toml  layout.toml  shader cache

Updating from a version that kept saves in Android/data/com.racas.mostwanted/files/hdd copies them over on the first start and leaves the old copy alone. A save cut short while writing is restored from its last good copy.

Graphics and the settings panel

Cheats, add-on cars and My Music

• Cheats on the gear’s panel: infinite nitrous, infinite speedbreaker, max cash, no police, every car and event opened, no traffic and auto shift in drag races.
• Mods Loader has its own icon. It converts Most Wanted cars made for the PC version into the Xbox game’s format on the phone: pick a car archive (ZIP, 7z or RAR) you downloaded, tap Play, and it appears in the car select and garage. Each car has a Remove button; saves keep working.
• My Music: put MP3, M4A/AAC, OGG, Opus, FLAC or WAV files in MostWanted/music, named Artist - Title. The MY MUSIC tab chooses between your songs and EA Trax, in order or shuffled, per menu or race.

Controls on the phone

The touch layout is a full Xbox controller: the left side of the screen is the left stick wherever your thumb lands, a drag on the right is the right stick, and the face buttons show the game’s own actions (A e-brake, B nitrous, X speedbreaker, Y look back). Android’s Back button is Start. Edit Controls Position moves and resizes each control; Low Triggers moves RT and LT down from the top corners.

Controllers: any pad SDL3 supports, with rumble. The Xbox Wireless Controller matches the on-screen layout; the 8BitDo Ultimate 2 Wireless and GameSir Cyclone 2 work as standard pads, and a DualSense works over Bluetooth. More on the controllers page.

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Known issues

• Visibility tests are not counted yet, so the sun’s glare stays off.
• A story film after the first race has been seen to stop on its first picture; the engine’s own cutscenes (rival intros, the career’s opening) cannot be skipped yet.
• Open reports on the tracker include force closes after Blacklist bosses and in free roam, rain lowering the frame rate, and a black screen at start on some phones. See troubleshooting.

Most Wanted for Android or Most Wanted Recompiled?

Both run Most Wanted natively, from different originals. Choose by the copy you own: the Xbox Black Edition goes with Most Wanted for Android; the PC game goes with Most Wanted Recompiled, which also has LAN and online play and an ARMv7 APK. The Xbox port has the settings panel, cheats, Mods Loader, My Music and a Linux build.

Release history