Android x86 Open Source Project

Android-x86 Project - Run Android on Your PC

Yes! you can now install and run android OS on x86 too, but like all other open source projects android x86 also have lot of bugs and errors because it is in its initial development stages.Developers are reporting ,removing and committing improvements to this project.

Andriod x86 open source project released by Google is for arm platform, these releases of android open source project are under one of the licence of Open Source Initiative. The Open Source Initiative (OSI) is a global non-profit that supports and promotes the open source movement.

The android x86 project is founded by Chih-Wei Huang and Yi Sun ,today many developers voluntarily  are debugging the project and helping to port android to x86 platform, in the next blog i will guide you how to be the part of the project to build android x86 .Let me tell you guys that how you can install the current releases on your x86 machine.

Installation guide android x86 

 Supported file systems are:

• ext3
• ext2
• ntfs
• fat32 

You can download .iso file form this link all versions and releases are listed here.

Burn the iso file in the CDROM or create bootable USB (Recommended),choose the Install Android to hard disk' item, as show below

after seconds of  booting you will see a dialogue box where you can select the  partition (you can select existing and  create your own partition ) as shown below,

Efficient developers and volunteers from the world have also considered conventional user experience this fact can be explain by mentioning  the flexibility during installation,you can install android without losing your data and even android can co-exist with the your favorite "Primary OS" so you can install android without breaking your loyalty with your primary OS.During selection of file system select the option "don't format" this will let you save your data.

If there are any issues during installation you can refer to this official documentation for advance installation.Now, you can enjoy your favorite OS  on your PC.

Try this OS and list down the bugs ,later in the next posts i will guide you to join the developers community of android x86 project.

If you want to know more about the open source project or you want to setup environment to build this project further, you can email me : subtainishfaq.bese18@hotmail.com. or visit http://www.android-x86.org/.

Thank you!

By Subtain Ishfaq.