You can use the internal Android file explorer or a computer to copy files into it, and you'll need to modify different files in it depending on what you're configuring. While you should follow the official instructions on how to install Optifine in Pojav Launcher, you may come across difficulties when trying to copy files to the /sdcard/Android/data//files/.minecraft folder thanks to Android 11's Scoped Storage changes. You can then click 'play', and if you get a warning in a dialogue box, click 'play anyway'.

With big modpacks textures could be messed up.

Random crashes can happen often on Android 5.x during game load or join world.

In 1.16 and up, spawn eggs banners are white (you can fix this by switching renderer to gl4es 1.1.5, only works on 1.16 and up, do not use under this version, as the texture will bug out when hitting a mob).

A workaround is provided and built into the launcher. Minecraft 21w10a or newer are currently not yet supported due to the new GLSL usage.There are some known issues when playing using Pojav Launcher, which are outlined below: This gets complicated when playing on PvP servers.

The most annoying part of the experience is that you can't easily click by tapping - you need to hold down on the screen to use a weapon.

Incredibly, I had better performance on the Google Pixel 6 Pro than I've seen on some laptops, and that was without any optimisation whatsoever. The launcher is completely open-source on GitHub. You can use Forge Launcher up to 1.16.5 for a modded experience, and Fabric is supported as well. Still, this works surprisingly well, and there's even a mouse pointer and touch controls that you can use for navigating menus.

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