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 guide to hacking Android games with Cheat Droid, the Android Shared Preferences and SQLite editor. Learn the method once, and 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 – here’s why root is required and how to root your phone.
- The Cheat Droid app – download it free from the official page.
- An offline game. Online games keep your data on a server, so they usually can’t be edited (more on that below).
The general method: 5 steps
Every game-specific tutorial on this site follows the same core recipe:
- 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 – such as
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 trickiest part is working out which key holds the value you want. A few tips:
- Keys are often named in plain English –
coins,gemCount,highscore– so scan the file for an obvious match. - Note the value in-game first (say, 105 coins), then search the file for that exact number.
- If nothing looks right, the game may use an SQLite database instead of Shared Preferences – check there too.
- Change one value at a time so you can tell what each key controls.
Offline vs. online games
Cheat Droid can only edit data stored locally on your device, which makes single-player and offline games ideal. Online games keep your real progress on their servers, so local edits either won’t work or get overwritten. If your changes don’t save, the game is probably online, or it protects its data 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 – browse the Tutorials section.
Stay safe: back up first
Before editing anything, make a backup so you can revert if a game breaks. The Pro version makes import/export backups effortless. If an app crashes after editing, restoring your backup (or reinstalling) fixes it. Finally, please read what is and isn’t allowed: Cheat Droid is for learning and for editing your own data, not for cheating other people.