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Andriod handphones tablets cameras TV and now PCs.
http://www.android-x86.org/
Android-x86 Project - Run Android on Your PC
This is a project to port Android open source project to x86 platform, formerly known as "patch hosting for android x86 support". The original plan is to host different patches for android x86 support from open source community. A few months after we created the project, we found out that we could do much more than just hosting patches. So we decide to create our code base to provide support on different x86 platforms, and set up a git server to host it.
This is an open source project licensed under Apache Public License 2.0. If you think we did something great, consider making a donation.
What is new?
See what we are doing now...
2014-08-08: The Android-x86 4.4-r1 released (kitkat-x86).
2014-07-31: The installer now supports read-write mode installation on ntfs and vfat.
2014-05-20: The Android-x86 4.4-RC2 released (kitkat-x86).
2014-04-18: Add ntfs/exfat/ext4 support to vold.
2014-02-14: The Android-x86 4.4-RC1 released (kitkat-x86).
2013-12-17: The kitkat-x86 branch is updated to Android 4.4.2 release (kitkat-mr1).
2013-12-10: The kitkat-x86 branch is updated to Android 4.4.1 release.
2013-11-04: The kitkat-x86 branch is ready in git.android-x86.org. It's in early stage and buggy. Call for developers.
2013-11-01: Google announced Android 4.4, the KitKat release.
2013-07-25: Test build 20130725 of jb-x86 based on Android 4.3 is ready for downloading.
2013-07-24: Google announced Android 4.3. The source code is released.
2013-06-23: Android-x86 4.0-r1 is released.
2013-06-08: Joe Spencer created a supported device list.
2013-02-28: A new test build of jb-x86 is available for downloading.
2013-01-16: The jb-x86 source tree is ready for downloading.
2013-01-02: Android-x86 at Google code is unbanned. Thanks to everyone who help this.
2013-01-01: IMPORTANT!! MUST READ: Android-x86 was blocked by Google code.
2012-12-25: Merry Christmas! The first test release of jb-x86 is available for downloading.
2012-11-20: We begin the jb-x86 porting based on Android 4.2.
2012-07-15: Android-x86 4.0-RC2 is released.
2012-07-11: Intel contributes x86 Dalvik JIT support to AOSP.
2012-06-26: Dalvik patch for arm translator from BuilDroid is merged.
2012-04-10: The ics-x86 branch is updated to Android 4.0.4.
2012-02-27: Android-x86 4.0-RC1 is released.
2012-01-01: Test build 20120101 is released.
2011-12-25: New testing ics-x86 isos supporting hybrid format are available.
2011-12-24: The git.android-x86.org is back and supports smart http transport.
2011-12-20: The git.android-x86.org is down for maintenance. In the meantime please use the SourceForge mirror.
2011-12-10: Display issue of Intel i915/i965 for ics-x86 is solved. More ics-x86 images are available.
2011-12-01: The ics-x86 branch is ready for developers. Download the testing iso for AMD tablet...
2011-11-23: Android-x86 3.2-RC2 (honeycomb-x86) is released.
2011-10-31: New target amd_persimmon is added (contributed by AMD).
2011-10-30: The gingerbread-x86 branch is updated to Android 2.3.7.
2011-08-28: Android-x86 2.3 RC1 (Test build 20110828) is released.
2011-08-08: The gingerbread-x86 branch is updated to Android 2.3.5, hardware acceleration enabled for some targets.
2011-07-04: The ethernet support is added to gingerbread-x86 branch.
2011-06-28: Android-x86 2.2-r2 is released.
2011-05-10: The mouse patch is added to gingerbread-x86 branch.
2011-05-05: The gingerbread-x86 branch is updated to Android 2.3.4, API level 10.
2011-04-20: The gingerbread-x86 branch is updated to Android 2.3.3.
2011-04-08: The froyo-x86 branch is updated to Android 2.2.2 based.
2011-04-02: We have 4 million pageviews now, and around 242,275 pageviews come from android-x86 installed machines. Check out "Some Statistics about Android-x86.org Project" for more details.
2011-04-02: AMD donates T56N/E1 development boards to Android-x86.org
2011-03-30: The build break in gingerbread-x86 branch has been fixed. The patch is in the download section.
2011-02-10: TegaTech donates three Tega v2 tablets to Android-x86.org.
2011-01-26: Gingerbread-x86 branch is ready to download.
2011-01-13: Android-x86 2.2 is released.
2011-01-01: Test build 20110101 is released.
More news ...
Project Goal
To provide complete solution for Android on Eee PC platforms first and then to provide solutions for common x86 platforms as well.
Screenshots
Surf the Internet Play Video
View Photos Wifi Status
More screenshots can be found here.
Tested platforms
The tests are done by the project members and others from android-porting group.
ASUS Eee PCs/Laptops
Viewsonic Viewpad 10
Dell Inspiron Mini Duo
Samsung Q1U
Viliv S5
Lenovo ThinkPad x61 Tablet
Most of the models can run the native resolutions via i915 driver. Thanks to the kernel mode setting (kms) feature introduced since kernel 2.6.29.
Features
The following features are available in the latest release (get it).
Kernel 3.10.40, KMS enable
Wifi support with GUI
Better disk installer
Power Suspend/resume (S3 mode)
Battery Status
Software mouse cursor
Mouse wheel
Support netbook native resolution
Audio (ALSA)
V4l2 Camera support
External monitor support
External storage auto mount support
Support external keyboard
Debug mode with busybox
Bluetooth
G-sensor
Source code
We provides a complete, compilable and workable source tree. Read GetSourceCode for how to use it.
You can also browse the code online.
Development (2014/05)
What we are working on now
Port KitKat-MR2 (Android 4.4.4) to x86 (kitkat-x86 branch)
OpenGL ES hardware acceleration for intel/radeon (cwhuang) and nvidia (pstglia) platforms.
OpenGL emulation layer (cwhuang)
Improve multimedia support (cwhuang)
CyanogenMod integration
To do list
integrate multiple targets support
support external monitor
better power management
multi-touch touchpad support
test out all default applications
Join us
If you are interesting in running Android on PC or netbook, consider to join us. See how to contact us.
Credit
Current project maintainers are Chih-Wei Huang ([email protected]).
0xlab, a group of engineers enthusiastic in open source software development , contributed many fixes and improvements to the Android frameworks, included the OpenGL ES hardware acceleration for Android-x86.
Michael Chen who developed the stagefright-plugins to improve the multimedia support.
Dima Zavin , the original guy ported the Android to EeePC 701
Geunsik Lim , wrote original "HOWTO Build Android-X86 Full Source" and "How to use x86 android platform on virtualbox "
Chen Yang for the instructions on the how to make boot-able image and how to build Android for VMware, and investigations on almost all of the build breaks and run time issues
Jackie Wu for the fix in alarm.c
Niels Keeman for the investigation on the path issue in the battery service jni code, v4l2 camera support (android-m912 project)
Luca Belluccini for the first patch to fix the path issue in the battery service jni code
Kevin Jeng for adding the mouse wheel support
Andrew Hughes for the works on iwlwifi4965 and Thinkpad x61 testing
Al Sutton for testing and work on the ViewSonic ViewPad 10
Sebastian Albrecht from Vancouver special, Lorne Marr, Toronto Realtor Elli Davis, and Chantal Marr from No medical life insurance for their support.
Of course, there are other people who gave helps. But there are too many e-mails and it is very hard for me to go through each e-mail to find the related person to list here. So, if you think we missed your name here, please kindly drop us an e-mail ( contact at android-x86.org ).
Click here to view the whole thread at www.sammyboy.com (http://www.sammyboy.com/showthread.php?187615-Android-Based-PC-Right-Now-and-Right-Here&goto=newpost).
Andriod handphones tablets cameras TV and now PCs.
http://www.android-x86.org/
Android-x86 Project - Run Android on Your PC
This is a project to port Android open source project to x86 platform, formerly known as "patch hosting for android x86 support". The original plan is to host different patches for android x86 support from open source community. A few months after we created the project, we found out that we could do much more than just hosting patches. So we decide to create our code base to provide support on different x86 platforms, and set up a git server to host it.
This is an open source project licensed under Apache Public License 2.0. If you think we did something great, consider making a donation.
What is new?
See what we are doing now...
2014-08-08: The Android-x86 4.4-r1 released (kitkat-x86).
2014-07-31: The installer now supports read-write mode installation on ntfs and vfat.
2014-05-20: The Android-x86 4.4-RC2 released (kitkat-x86).
2014-04-18: Add ntfs/exfat/ext4 support to vold.
2014-02-14: The Android-x86 4.4-RC1 released (kitkat-x86).
2013-12-17: The kitkat-x86 branch is updated to Android 4.4.2 release (kitkat-mr1).
2013-12-10: The kitkat-x86 branch is updated to Android 4.4.1 release.
2013-11-04: The kitkat-x86 branch is ready in git.android-x86.org. It's in early stage and buggy. Call for developers.
2013-11-01: Google announced Android 4.4, the KitKat release.
2013-07-25: Test build 20130725 of jb-x86 based on Android 4.3 is ready for downloading.
2013-07-24: Google announced Android 4.3. The source code is released.
2013-06-23: Android-x86 4.0-r1 is released.
2013-06-08: Joe Spencer created a supported device list.
2013-02-28: A new test build of jb-x86 is available for downloading.
2013-01-16: The jb-x86 source tree is ready for downloading.
2013-01-02: Android-x86 at Google code is unbanned. Thanks to everyone who help this.
2013-01-01: IMPORTANT!! MUST READ: Android-x86 was blocked by Google code.
2012-12-25: Merry Christmas! The first test release of jb-x86 is available for downloading.
2012-11-20: We begin the jb-x86 porting based on Android 4.2.
2012-07-15: Android-x86 4.0-RC2 is released.
2012-07-11: Intel contributes x86 Dalvik JIT support to AOSP.
2012-06-26: Dalvik patch for arm translator from BuilDroid is merged.
2012-04-10: The ics-x86 branch is updated to Android 4.0.4.
2012-02-27: Android-x86 4.0-RC1 is released.
2012-01-01: Test build 20120101 is released.
2011-12-25: New testing ics-x86 isos supporting hybrid format are available.
2011-12-24: The git.android-x86.org is back and supports smart http transport.
2011-12-20: The git.android-x86.org is down for maintenance. In the meantime please use the SourceForge mirror.
2011-12-10: Display issue of Intel i915/i965 for ics-x86 is solved. More ics-x86 images are available.
2011-12-01: The ics-x86 branch is ready for developers. Download the testing iso for AMD tablet...
2011-11-23: Android-x86 3.2-RC2 (honeycomb-x86) is released.
2011-10-31: New target amd_persimmon is added (contributed by AMD).
2011-10-30: The gingerbread-x86 branch is updated to Android 2.3.7.
2011-08-28: Android-x86 2.3 RC1 (Test build 20110828) is released.
2011-08-08: The gingerbread-x86 branch is updated to Android 2.3.5, hardware acceleration enabled for some targets.
2011-07-04: The ethernet support is added to gingerbread-x86 branch.
2011-06-28: Android-x86 2.2-r2 is released.
2011-05-10: The mouse patch is added to gingerbread-x86 branch.
2011-05-05: The gingerbread-x86 branch is updated to Android 2.3.4, API level 10.
2011-04-20: The gingerbread-x86 branch is updated to Android 2.3.3.
2011-04-08: The froyo-x86 branch is updated to Android 2.2.2 based.
2011-04-02: We have 4 million pageviews now, and around 242,275 pageviews come from android-x86 installed machines. Check out "Some Statistics about Android-x86.org Project" for more details.
2011-04-02: AMD donates T56N/E1 development boards to Android-x86.org
2011-03-30: The build break in gingerbread-x86 branch has been fixed. The patch is in the download section.
2011-02-10: TegaTech donates three Tega v2 tablets to Android-x86.org.
2011-01-26: Gingerbread-x86 branch is ready to download.
2011-01-13: Android-x86 2.2 is released.
2011-01-01: Test build 20110101 is released.
More news ...
Project Goal
To provide complete solution for Android on Eee PC platforms first and then to provide solutions for common x86 platforms as well.
Screenshots
Surf the Internet Play Video
View Photos Wifi Status
More screenshots can be found here.
Tested platforms
The tests are done by the project members and others from android-porting group.
ASUS Eee PCs/Laptops
Viewsonic Viewpad 10
Dell Inspiron Mini Duo
Samsung Q1U
Viliv S5
Lenovo ThinkPad x61 Tablet
Most of the models can run the native resolutions via i915 driver. Thanks to the kernel mode setting (kms) feature introduced since kernel 2.6.29.
Features
The following features are available in the latest release (get it).
Kernel 3.10.40, KMS enable
Wifi support with GUI
Better disk installer
Power Suspend/resume (S3 mode)
Battery Status
Software mouse cursor
Mouse wheel
Support netbook native resolution
Audio (ALSA)
V4l2 Camera support
External monitor support
External storage auto mount support
Support external keyboard
Debug mode with busybox
Bluetooth
G-sensor
Source code
We provides a complete, compilable and workable source tree. Read GetSourceCode for how to use it.
You can also browse the code online.
Development (2014/05)
What we are working on now
Port KitKat-MR2 (Android 4.4.4) to x86 (kitkat-x86 branch)
OpenGL ES hardware acceleration for intel/radeon (cwhuang) and nvidia (pstglia) platforms.
OpenGL emulation layer (cwhuang)
Improve multimedia support (cwhuang)
CyanogenMod integration
To do list
integrate multiple targets support
support external monitor
better power management
multi-touch touchpad support
test out all default applications
Join us
If you are interesting in running Android on PC or netbook, consider to join us. See how to contact us.
Credit
Current project maintainers are Chih-Wei Huang ([email protected]).
0xlab, a group of engineers enthusiastic in open source software development , contributed many fixes and improvements to the Android frameworks, included the OpenGL ES hardware acceleration for Android-x86.
Michael Chen who developed the stagefright-plugins to improve the multimedia support.
Dima Zavin , the original guy ported the Android to EeePC 701
Geunsik Lim , wrote original "HOWTO Build Android-X86 Full Source" and "How to use x86 android platform on virtualbox "
Chen Yang for the instructions on the how to make boot-able image and how to build Android for VMware, and investigations on almost all of the build breaks and run time issues
Jackie Wu for the fix in alarm.c
Niels Keeman for the investigation on the path issue in the battery service jni code, v4l2 camera support (android-m912 project)
Luca Belluccini for the first patch to fix the path issue in the battery service jni code
Kevin Jeng for adding the mouse wheel support
Andrew Hughes for the works on iwlwifi4965 and Thinkpad x61 testing
Al Sutton for testing and work on the ViewSonic ViewPad 10
Sebastian Albrecht from Vancouver special, Lorne Marr, Toronto Realtor Elli Davis, and Chantal Marr from No medical life insurance for their support.
Of course, there are other people who gave helps. But there are too many e-mails and it is very hard for me to go through each e-mail to find the related person to list here. So, if you think we missed your name here, please kindly drop us an e-mail ( contact at android-x86.org ).
Click here to view the whole thread at www.sammyboy.com (http://www.sammyboy.com/showthread.php?187615-Android-Based-PC-Right-Now-and-Right-Here&goto=newpost).