NOT UNDER ACTIVE DEVELOPMENT

The legendary Team Beef is working on a Quest native port that is going to be so much better than anything I could do :)

My version is just an "aperitif" until theirs launches, so stay tuned!

OpenMW-VR for Meta Quest (native APK)

org.openmw.vr-20260705-005956-0.mp4

Self-contained build of OpenMW-VR as a standalone Quest APK (OpenXR + GLES via gl4es). Everything needed lives in this repo:

android/
  buildscripts/   cross-compiles the engine + all native deps for arm64-v8a
  app/            minimal VR APK that loads libopenmw.so straight into VR

Based on https://gitlab.com/madsbuvi/openmw/-/tree/openmw-51 and https://github.com/xyzz/openmw-android

Game data

The APK ships no Morrowind data. Put your Morrowind install in either location:

# Option A — full Morrowind folder on shared storage (contains "Data Files/"):
adb push Morrowind/ /sdcard/Morrowind/
# Option B — app-scoped folder, just the Data Files contents (no permission needed):
adb push "Morrowind/Data Files/." /sdcard/Android/data/org.openmw.vr/files/data/

OpenMWActivity regenerates …/files/config/openmw.cfg on each launch, scanning /sdcard/Morrowind/Data Files, /sdcard/Morrowind, and the app-scoped data/ folder — it adds a data= line for each that exists and a content= entry per game file found (Morrowind/Tribunal/ Bloodmoon ordered first). For Option A, grant the storage permission when prompted, or pre-grant:

adb shell pm grant org.openmw.vr android.permission.READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE

Install & run on the headset (one command)

Once the Quest is reachable over adb (USB, or adb connect <ip>:5555):

android/run-on-device.sh ~/Morrowind   # pushes data, installs, grants perms, launches, tails log
android/run-on-device.sh               # if data is already on the device

It captures the startup log to android/omw-device.log (filtered to OpenMW/SDL/OpenXR/crash tags).

Build

cd android/buildscripts
./build.sh            # downloads the NDK, builds deps + libopenmw.so, deploys into app/
cd ..
ANDROID_HOME=$HOME/Android/Sdk ./gradlew :app:assembleDebug
adb install -r app/build/outputs/apk/debug/app-debug.apk

Debugging

build.sh keeps unstripped libs in buildscripts/symbols/arm64-v8a/ for symbolizing tombstones. Watch startup with:

adb logcat -s OpenMW SDL openxr VrApi DEBUG