Android 6.0.1

Asus has now made available their first release of the Android operating system on the Asus Tinker Board. Asus has labelled the release as TinkerOS_Android V13.11.0.2 (Beta version). It’s a release of Android 6.0.1 running on kernel 3.10.0.

To install the operating system, users just need to use a disk tool to write the Android image to a micro SD card. This is included with the zip file (from Asus’s website – www.asus.com/Single-Board-Computer/Tinker-Board/HelpDesk_Download/).

There’s no progress bar to show how the image writing is proceeding. But when it’s completed and successful, you’ll receive the notification below.

My initial observation:

The first boot up takes a while – it seems an age before even an Android logo is displayed. Don’t reboot the Tinker Board.

Here’s a few screenshots of the apps. The 4K Video icon looks very interesting. More on that later.

Some technical information.

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