Android-x86

Run Android on your PC

Release Note 8.1-rc1

(2018/06/18)

The Android-x86 project is glad to announce the 8.1-rc1 release to public. This is the first release candidate for Android-x86 8.1 (oreo-x86). The prebuilt images are available in the following site:

Key Features

The 8.1-rc1 release is based on the latest Android 8.1.0 Oreo MR1 release (8.1.0_r33). The features include :

Support both 64-bit and 32-bit kernel and userspace.

Support OpenGL ES 3.x hardware acceleration for Intel/AMD/Nvidia, VMware and QEMU(virgl) by Mesa 18.1.2.

Support OpenGL ES 2.0 via SwiftShader for software rendering on unsupported GPU devices.

Support hardware accelerated codecs on devices with Intel HD & G45 graphics family.

on devices with Intel HD & G45 graphics family. Support secure booting from UEFI and installing to UEFI disk.

A text based GUI installer.

Add theme support to GRUB-EFI.

Support Multi-touch, Audio, Wifi, Bluetooth, Sensors, Camera and Ethernet (DHCP only).

Auto-mount external usb drive and sdcard.

Add Taskbar as an alternative launcher which puts a start menu and recent apps tray on top of your screen and support freeform window mode.

Enable ForceDefaultOrientation on devices without known sensors. Portrait apps can run in a landscape device without rotating the screen.

Support arm arch apps via the native bridge mechanism. (Settings -> Android-x86 options)

Released Files

This release contains four files. You can choose one of these files depends on your devices. Most modern devices should be able to run the 64-bit ISO. For older devices with legacy BIOS, you may try the 32-bit ISO.

64-bit ISO: android-x86_64-8.1-rc1.iso sha1sum: d6a436467719319ea2b1acfe8c523627c9890484

32-bit ISO: android-x86-8.1-rc1.iso sha1sum: ccf75401f42561099d85706956c8a109f03ba62b

64-bit rpm: android-x86-8.1-rc1.x86_64.rpm sha1sum: 389a283adf635ba2ee8c768b9059a229da250941

32-bit rpm: android-x86-8.1-rc1.i686.rpm sha1sum: 5da8e6af527a20656c4621499cb8e34cfa83fa48

To use an ISO file, Linux users could just dump it into a usb drive to create a bootable usb stick like :

dd if=android-x86_64-8.1-rc1.iso of=/dev/sdX

where /dev/sdX is the device name of your usb drive.

Windows's users can use the tool Win32 Disk Imager to create a bootable usb stick.

Please read this page about how to install it to the device. Except the traditional ISO files, we also package android-x86 files into a Linux package rpm. It allows Linux users to easily install the release into an existing Linux device with a standalone ext4 root partition. On an rpm based device (Fedora/Red Hat/CentOS/SUSE...), just install it like a normal rpm package:

sudo rpm -Uvh android-x86-8.1-rc1.x86_64.rpm

This will update your older installation like 7.1-r2 or 8.1-rc1 if you have.

On a deb based device (Debian/Ubuntu/LinuxMint/...), please use the alien tool to install it:

sudo apt install alien

sudo alien -ci android-x86-8.1-rc1.x86_64.rpm

All files will be installed to the /android-8.1-rc1/ subdirectory and boot entries will be added to grub2 menu. Reboot and choose android-x86 item from the menu to boot Android-x86. Alternatively, you can launch Android-x86 in a QEMU virtual machine by the installed qemu-android script:

sudo qemu-android

Note Android-x86 running in QEMU and the real machine (after rebooting) share the same data sub-folder.

To uninstall it :

sudo rpm -e android-x86

or (on Debian/Ubuntu/LinuxMint/...)

sudo apt-get remove android-x86

Known Issues

Google Play Service may crash sometimes on the 32-bit image.

Suspend and resume doesn't work on some devices.

Source code

The source code is available in the main git server.

repo init -u git://git.osdn.net/gitroot/android-x86/manifest -b oreo-x86

repo sync --no-tags --no-clone-bundle

Read this page for how to compile source code.