but anything you do will not be kept on the USB stick, after a reboot it will be as if you have never changed anything.
If it is worth it to go through all of this depends mostly on the result - try the Live mode, install a few games/apps, see how it performs and decide if it is worth having or not.ġ) Download the ISO from (Android-x86 ISOs can be found at /download - i’m using - had problems with the graphics on my system - your mileage may vary)Ģ) Create a bootable USB stick from the ISO using a tool like LinuxLive USB creator ( )ģ) You can already use this USB stick to run Android-x86 (in Live mode)! You can setup your Google account, install apps etc. It certainly is not the simplest solution - it doesn’t simply install like an emulator does - some extra steps are needed, very similar to installing any other OS. Some apps/games won’t run or won’t work, but STT and SWGoH (and many others) are running flawlessly. Nothing else running on the machine but Android itself.įree and Open Source - you will never have to pay anything - you can investigate all of the code yourself, even create your own OS from it.
No extra/redundant software layers between Android and the hardware. These videos are not in HD quality, so they are not completely representative of the actual display quality. You can see the installation procedure here (on a netbook): Īnd some more action here on that netbook:
You can see it in action here (on a laptop): -XuGYRPXZU Of all the solutions i have tried to run Android on a PC, one stood out in terms of performance and audio/graphics quality - Android-x86.