How to Hack Any Android Game with Cheat Droid
Want to give yourself unlimited coins, gems, lives or a higher score in your favourite Android game? This is the complete, general guide to hacking Android games with Cheat Droid – the Android Shared Preferences and SQLite editor. Once you understand the method below, you can apply it to almost any offline game.
What you need before you start
- A rooted Android device. Android cheats are impossible without root – see why root is required and how to root your phone.
- The Cheat Droid app. Download Cheat Droid for free from the official page.
- An offline game. Online games store their data on a server, so they usually cannot be edited (more on that below).
The general method: 5 steps
Every game-specific tutorial on this site follows the same core recipe. Here it is in full:
- Root your device and install Cheat Droid. Grab the APK from the official download page and install it.
- Open Cheat Droid and pick your game. Grant root access when prompted, then select the game from the list of installed apps.
- Open the game’s data file. Most games keep their values in a Shared Preferences
.xmlfile (often named….playerprefs.xml) or in an SQLite database. Open it in Cheat Droid’s editor. - Find and edit the value. Look for a key that matches what you want to change – e.g.
coins,gems,gold,scoreorlives– and set it to your desired number. - Save and verify. Save the file, then re-open the game. Your new values should be there.
How to find the right value to edit
The tricky part is usually figuring out which key holds the value you care about. A few tips:
- Keys are often named in plain English (
coins,gemCount,highscore). Scan the file for something that matches. - Note the value in-game first (e.g. 105 coins), then look for that exact number in the file.
- If nothing looks right, the game may store data in an SQLite database instead of Shared Preferences – check there too.
- Change one value at a time so you can tell what each key does.
Offline vs. online games
Cheat Droid can only edit data that is stored locally on your device. Single-player and offline games are ideal. Online games, however, keep your real progress on their servers, so editing local files won’t work – and may just get overwritten. If your edits don’t persist, the game is probably online or protected with encryption or checksums.
See it in action
Follow along with a real, game-specific walkthrough:
- How to Hack Sand Balls – unlimited gems.
- How to Hack Perfect Slices – unlimited coins.
More game tutorials are on the way – check the Tutorials section.
Stay safe: back up first
Before editing anything, create a backup so you can revert if a game breaks. The Pro version makes import/export backups easy. If an app crashes after editing, restoring your backup (or reinstalling) fixes it. Please also read what is and isn’t allowed: Cheat Droid is a tool for learning and for editing your own data, not for cheating others.