Location Spoofer

Put your Android phone anywhere on the map — from the phone itself, or from your Windows PC.

Download for Android · Download for Windows · All releases

Why this exists

Anything that depends on where a phone is — delivery and ride-hailing flows, geofenced reminders, store finders, fitness trackers, travel apps — is slow and awkward to test by physically walking around. Location Spoofer sets your phone's GPS position to any point on Earth, or moves it along a route at a realistic speed, using the mock location API that Android provides for exactly this job. No root, no hacks.

It comes in two parts that work alone or together:

• Android app: pick a point or draw a route on the phone, and it feeds that position to the apps on the device.
• Windows controller: do the same from a big screen. Plan routes with a mouse, set up a phone in one click, and drive Android emulators directly.

It's handy for:

• testing location-based features and geofences without leaving your desk
• reproducing "works in Singapore, broken in Berlin" bugs
• demoing a location-aware app as if you were somewhere else
• previewing how your own app looks and behaves in other cities

Download

Platform	Download	Requirements
Android	LocationSpoofer-v1.2.0-debug.apk (19 MB)	Android 8.0 or newer
Windows	LocationSpoofer-windows-v1.2.0.zip (63 MB)	Windows 10/11 x64, adb, WebView2 Runtime (built into Windows 11)

Both are free and open source. Release notes and older versions are on the releases page.

Quick start

On the phone

1. Install the APK. Android will ask you to allow installs from unknown sources.
2. Turn on Developer options: Settings › About phone › tap Build number 7 times.
3. In Developer options, set Select mock location app to Location Spoofer.
4. Open the app and allow location access. Tap the map, then tap Start spoofing.

With the Windows controller

1. Turn on USB debugging in the phone's Developer options, plug it in, and accept the prompt.
2. Unzip the Windows download and run SpoofingApp.exe. If Windows refuses to start it, right-click the zip › Properties › tick Unblock, then extract it again.
3. Pick your phone, click Install APK… the first time, then Prepare device. That does the Developer-options setup for you.
4. Click the map or draw a route, then click Start spoofing.

To get your real location back, tap Stop in either app or in the phone's notification.

Features

Android app

• Fixed point: tap the map, search for a place, paste coordinates, or pick a favorite.
• Route simulation: tap waypoints and move along them at walking, running, cycling, driving or custom speed (1–150 km/h), with optional looping. Speed and bearing are reported too.
• Covers the whole location stack: the platform GPS and network providers (plus the platform fused provider on Android 12+) and Google Play services' fused location provider, which most apps, including Google Maps, read from.
• Keeps running in the background as a foreground service, with a Stop button in the notification.
• Live changes: apply a new point, speed or accuracy while spoofing. Changing only speed, loop or accuracy keeps your position on the route.
• OpenStreetMap map with no API key, favorites, and adjustable accuracy and update interval.
• Updates itself: More options › Check for updates fetches the newest release from GitHub and hands it to Android's installer, so you never have to re-download the APK by hand.

Windows controller

• Lists every device and emulator adb can see.
• Prepare device grants everything over adb: it makes the app the selected mock location app and grants the location and notification permissions, so Developer options never has to be opened.
• Install APK… sideloads the app onto the selected device.
• Fixed point or multi-waypoint route with speed and looping, handed to the phone app, which runs the simulation itself.
• Emulators need no app at all: the PC steps them along the route once per second with adb emu geo fix.
• Place search (OpenStreetMap Nominatim), coordinate paste, and a log of every adb command.

Support the project

Location Spoofer is free and built in my spare time. If it saved you a walk around the block, you can buy me a coffee — it genuinely helps keep the project going.

Bug reports, ideas and pull requests are welcome too — open an issue.

Use it responsibly

Location Spoofer is a testing tool. Faking your location to deceive other people or services, such as games, dating apps, or attendance and delivery systems, usually breaks their terms and can get your accounts banned. Apps can also detect mocked locations (Location.isMock()), and many do.

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For developers

Build the Android app

gradlew.bat assembleDebug

adb install -r app/build/outputs/apk/debug/app-debug.apk

Or open the folder in Android Studio and press Run. Building needs JDK 17+ and the Android SDK, both of which Android Studio bundles.

Build the Windows controller

dotnet run --project windows/SpoofingApp.Desktop

dotnet publish windows/SpoofingApp.Desktop -c Release -r win-x64 --self-contained true -o out

Building needs the .NET 10 SDK. adb is found automatically via ANDROID_HOME, ANDROID_SDK_ROOT, %LOCALAPPDATA%\Android\Sdk, or PATH.

Remote control over adb

The phone app accepts commands directly, which is how the Windows controller drives it. Start a route:

adb shell am start -n com.spoofingmobileapp/.MainActivity -a com.spoofingmobileapp.action.REMOTE --es command start --es points '48.8584,2.2945;48.8606,2.3376' --es speed 18 --es loop true

Stop:

adb shell am start -n com.spoofingmobileapp/.MainActivity -a com.spoofingmobileapp.action.REMOTE --es command stop

Extras are all strings, because that is what adb shell am passes reliably: points is lat,lng pairs separated by ;, speed is km/h, loop is true/false, and accuracy is metres. A command is applied once the activity resumes, since Android only lets a location foreground service start while the app is actually in the foreground.

Becoming the mock location app without touching Developer options:

adb shell appops set com.spoofingmobileapp android:mock_location allow

How it works

MockLocationService is a foreground service. It registers test providers through LocationManager.addTestProvider, switches Play services into mock mode with FusedLocationProviderClient.setMockMode, and pushes a fresh Location every update interval, because Android discards mock fixes that stop updating. RouteSimulator interpolates positions along great-circle segments; the Windows app carries a C# port of the same maths for emulators.

app/src/main/java/com/spoofingmobileapp/
├── spoof/   MockLocationService, MockLocationPusher, MockLocationSetup, SpoofConfig, RemoteCommand
├── geo/     LatLng, GeoMath, RouteSimulator, CoordinateParser, PlaceSearch, Units
├── data/    FavoritesRepository, SettingsRepository
└── ui/      MainScreen, SpoofMap (osmdroid), ControlPanel, SearchBox, SetupCard, dialogs

windows/SpoofingApp.Desktop/
├── Adb/       AdbClient, AdbDevice parsing
├── Spoofing/  SpoofCommands, GeoMath, RouteSimulator, EmulatorRoutePlayer
├── Web/       the UI (Leaflet map) hosted in WebView2
└── MainWindow.xaml.cs   bridge between the page and adb

Tests

gradlew.bat testDebugUnitTest

dotnet test windows/SpoofingApp.slnx

Limitations

• Some apps, such as banking, anti-cheat or attendance apps, deliberately reject mocked locations.
• Windows itself cannot be spoofed. Windows has no mock location API, so the desktop app controls Android devices rather than faking the PC's own position; doing that would need a virtual GPS driver.
• iPhone isn't supported. iOS doesn't let apps change the location other apps see.
• Place search on the phone uses the device's built-in geocoder, which needs Google Play services and a network connection. Typing coordinates always works.
• The APK is debug-signed for sideloading. From 30 September 2026, phones in Brazil, Indonesia, Singapore and Thailand only install apps from unregistered developers through Android's advanced install flow or adb install.
• Map data and tiles come from OpenStreetMap. Please respect its tile usage policy and Nominatim usage policy.

License

MIT © kjkaijun

Map data and tiles © OpenStreetMap contributors. This project also depends on osmdroid (Apache-2.0), Google Play services Location and Microsoft WebView2, which carry their own terms.