Clone OG Animal Company (Xera Backend)

CREDITS:

Xera - Developer

1. Install Base APK & Gamedata

• Use QuestAppVersionSwitcher to get target APK version
• Go to the /gamedata folder in this repo and download the wanted game data (only a few are available)

2. Decompile APK

• Use APKToolGUI or similar to unpack

3. Patch Server URL

• Open global-metadata.dat in MetaDataStringEditor

• Ctrl+F: https://animalcompany.us-east1.nakamacloud.io

• Replace with: https://ac-xerabackend.pythonanywhere.com or your hosted backend url if self hosting

• Or go to /native-lib patch native-lib.cpp for your url and recompile (THIS IS THE ONLY WAY TO DO IT ON NEWER VERSIONS PAST LAVA)

4. Inject App ID

• Open assets/bin/data/globalgamemanagers in UABEA
• Ctrl+F: OculusPlatformSettings ? Extract as raw
• Open extracted .dat in HxD
• Replace Meta App ID with your own from developer.oculus.com

5. Rebrand Package Name

• Change: woosterGames.animalCompany
• Edit in AndroidManifest.xml and apktool.yml

6. Upload to Meta

• Sign in to developer.oculus.com
• Build and sign APK
• Upload to App Lab