Clash Meta for Android

Clash Meta for Android is a graphical client around the Mihomo core, formerly known as Clash.Meta. It creates an Android VPN tunnel and applies a YAML profile for proxies, routing rules and remote providers. DNS can be defined there too, but the app supplies its own defaults when the profile leaves DNS disabled.

The app supplies no account, server or subscription. It accepts local files and remote profile URLs. A remote URL is contacted when the profile is imported or updated, and provider URLs in the profile may be fetched on their own schedules. Treat subscription URLs like credentials because they often grant access to a paid or private service.

Protocols and routing

F-Droid’s current description lists VMess, Shadowsocks, Trojan and Snell, local HTTP/HTTPS/SOCKS proxies, encrypted DNS upstreams, fake-IP DNS and rules based on domains, GeoIP, IP ranges or processes. The bundled Mihomo core supports more options than a short page can safely enumerate; whether a specific profile works depends on its schema and the core version in this APK.

If a profile does not enable dns:, the app patches in fake-IP DNS, the system resolver, AliDNS (223.5.5.5), DNSPod (119.29.29.29), Google (8.8.4.4) and Cloudflare (1.0.0.1). DNS hijacking starts enabled and respect-rules starts off, so those fallback queries are sent directly rather than through proxy rules. Define an explicit dns: section to choose different resolvers. GeoIP, GeoSite and ASN databases are bundled in the APK and are not downloaded by default.

Rules can send different destinations or apps through different outbound groups, direct connections or blocks. Remote groups can perform latency selection, fallback and load balancing; a group without its own test URL may contact www.gstatic.com/generate_204 for latency checks. This flexibility also means a profile controls a large part of the device’s network path, DNS and destinations. Use configurations from an operator you trust and review unknown provider URLs and routing rules before importing them.

The camera permission is for QR import. QUERY_ALL_PACKAGES provides the installed-app list used to include or exclude apps from the tunnel and to evaluate app rules. INTERACT_ACROSS_USERS can only be granted through ADB and supports Android 17 work-profile loopback. The exported control intent also lets another installed app request that the tunnel start or stop. Boot and foreground-service permissions keep an enabled tunnel or scheduled profile update running. Android allows only one VPN connection at once, so Clash Meta cannot run beside another VPN-based firewall or provider app.

About this file

Version 2.11.35.Meta, build 211035, is F-Droid’s build of the GPL-3.0-only project. The 112.1 MB APK runs on Android 5.0 and later and carries the core for 32- and 64-bit ARM and x86, which accounts for much of its size. Its SHA-256 is b9dd093ec4e3440da53a369d8a594cbc431128876545eec13ceec6656637504a, matching F-Droid’s signed index. We verified package, signature, manifest and static contents; we did not connect it to a third-party proxy subscription.

CPU types in this build: arm64-v8a (64-bit ARM, almost every phone since 2017); armeabi-v7a (32-bit ARM, older and budget phones); x86 (32-bit Intel, emulators); x86_64 (64-bit Intel, emulators and Chromebooks).

Versions currently kept in the F-Droid repository. We host and check only the newest one.