We have seen Android Running on Smartphones but do You Want to Run Android OS on your computer? This is how you can do it.
First of all: this tutorial we will mess with a distro is in an early version (0.3) and the chance of the system will not work properly and turn your computer into a black hole that will swallow the entire solar system in seconds are high. If possible, install on a test computer or use a virtual machine to emulate a computer. To this end, we recommend VirtualBox, which works in both Linux and Windows. That said, lets get down to!
Android Download to PC
Live can be downloaded from the Android project page, hosted on Google Code (on this page you can also read the documentation, understand how the operating system and even help in the project). There are several download options, but always prefer the Torrent file of the latest version available (at the time this article is written, this is version 0.3). Because the. Iso is small (around 170 MB), the download should be fast.
To. Duly downloaded iso, just configure a new virtual machine in VirtualBox (or use a machine ever created), adding the. Iso file like a CD. If you have not paid much attention to the warning early in the second paragraph, can also burn the file onto a CD or copy the system to a USB key, and so do the boot directly on the physical machine.
With everything set up correctly, it's time to start the virtual machine or boot the PC. If there is any problem with the ISO or the hardware on your computer, the first screen you should see is this:
Install Android on the virtual machine
Choose the best resolution for your monitor and press Enter. The system boot will do the usual - as I get tired of seeing in Linux - and, if there is any problem, you will see Android running on all its majesty on a PC:
Android running directly on the PC
Obviously it's a pretty standard version of Android, without any extra or customized, but Android running on your computer.
Use Google Android on PC
Here begin the bad news: most likely, your mouse is not recognized, and you have to navigate the interface using the keyboard. Basically, you can use the TAB (navigation), Esc (exit) and Enter (confirm), in addition to the directional keys (browsing). It's kinda weird at first, but it's not hard getting used to.
Another problem concerns the network connection: Live for the moment the Android does not support DHCP, and even some common network cards, which means it's likely that you can not navigate the system. In my case, there was no way to make the network function. But that's the fun of a system still in version 0.3, no?
As I said earlier, this PC version of Android is still very early in the development, so there are many problems and even incompatibilities with the hardware. But as a proof of concept is already interesting, and if development continues at this level before long we will have a stable version. If you liked and want to test, leave comments on their comments.
First of all: this tutorial we will mess with a distro is in an early version (0.3) and the chance of the system will not work properly and turn your computer into a black hole that will swallow the entire solar system in seconds are high. If possible, install on a test computer or use a virtual machine to emulate a computer. To this end, we recommend VirtualBox, which works in both Linux and Windows. That said, lets get down to!
Android Download to PC
Live can be downloaded from the Android project page, hosted on Google Code (on this page you can also read the documentation, understand how the operating system and even help in the project). There are several download options, but always prefer the Torrent file of the latest version available (at the time this article is written, this is version 0.3). Because the. Iso is small (around 170 MB), the download should be fast.
To. Duly downloaded iso, just configure a new virtual machine in VirtualBox (or use a machine ever created), adding the. Iso file like a CD. If you have not paid much attention to the warning early in the second paragraph, can also burn the file onto a CD or copy the system to a USB key, and so do the boot directly on the physical machine.
With everything set up correctly, it's time to start the virtual machine or boot the PC. If there is any problem with the ISO or the hardware on your computer, the first screen you should see is this:
Install Android on the virtual machine
Choose the best resolution for your monitor and press Enter. The system boot will do the usual - as I get tired of seeing in Linux - and, if there is any problem, you will see Android running on all its majesty on a PC:
Android running directly on the PC
Obviously it's a pretty standard version of Android, without any extra or customized, but Android running on your computer.
Use Google Android on PC
Here begin the bad news: most likely, your mouse is not recognized, and you have to navigate the interface using the keyboard. Basically, you can use the TAB (navigation), Esc (exit) and Enter (confirm), in addition to the directional keys (browsing). It's kinda weird at first, but it's not hard getting used to.
Another problem concerns the network connection: Live for the moment the Android does not support DHCP, and even some common network cards, which means it's likely that you can not navigate the system. In my case, there was no way to make the network function. But that's the fun of a system still in version 0.3, no?
As I said earlier, this PC version of Android is still very early in the development, so there are many problems and even incompatibilities with the hardware. But as a proof of concept is already interesting, and if development continues at this level before long we will have a stable version. If you liked and want to test, leave comments on their comments.
