Overview
Using Android on a Desktop PC can have multiple usage scenarios,
for example
testing of android applications, mobile-websites or using Android
applications and games like WhatsApp from PC. While using a virtual
machine is an easy way to get what's needed, it
results in performance degradation, being an open-source project there are now native x86 architecture ports available
for PC users like SocketQ and Project
Android-x86.
When Google released Android 4.3 last week, the Android-x86 team got to the work and ported the brand new
OS upgrade for x86 hardware, and we now have an ready to
download test build of Android 4.3 for x86 platform.
With Android 4.3
Jelly Bean
source, new 3.10.2 linux kernel and support for hardware-accelerated
graphics on devices with AMD Radeon and Intel graphics chipsets the test
build has almost all features enabled from the upgrade except Superuser
(root) access and non-functional Suspend and resume support. Watch the
demonstration video running Android 4.3 natively on an
Acer Aspire 522
mini-laptop posted below, also shared is a simple "novice friendly
trick" to test-run this new Android build under Windows with a few
clicks and no additional software
installation.
Main Features of Android x86 v 4.3
- Kernel 3.0.36, KMS enable
- Wifi support with GUI
- Ethernet configuration 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
Now, to test-run this build on your Windows PC with minimum efforts - simply download the "MobaLiveCD" application and the "Android-x86-4.3
ISO" from the links provided below and run the Live CD. Do note that
this would be painfully slow and is not the recommended way to run.
After waiting for quite a while at the above screen I gave up and installed Android x86 on VirtualBox.
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