We’ve contacted the project lead, Chih-Wei Huang, to ask him about project as a whole and this point in particular, this was his answer: However, we thought that using a more popular service like GitHub/GitLab could have been a better option for the Git repository, and we wondered about why they chose this platform. One can easily notice that they are also using OSDN to host the Git repository of the project containing tens of various branches which are being worked on. It’s a really popular and important project, and thousands of people are benefiting from this work. (This doesn’t cover the previous download locations of the projects). Overall, there are around 2.8 million downloads for the project files from OSDN in just the last one and half years. The average number of downloads per month is around 125 thousands: Android x86 # Downloads Talking about numbers, there are thousands of downloads for these images per day. Cyangenmod 14.1 is also available as a release candidate. The latest android release ported to x86 is 7.1 Nougat, which was released around 2 months ago. The android x86 project also works on porting these images to the x86 architectures. Additionally, you can also notice that some images exist for Cyangenmod. On its download page, the android x86 project provides various android images for both the 32 and 64 bit platforms. Now, we try to highlight the current status of the project and how it is going on.Ī Tour Inside Android x86 Android x86 Download Stats We’ve had a tutorial before on how to run android x86 on your Linux distribution inside QEMU to easily run android’s apps and games. The code is released under Apache Public license 2.0 with some components being under GPL. The project has been online for around 8 years porting various versions of android beside fixing bugs which arise from time to time. Downloading them and trying to install them on your personal computer won’t simply work.Īndroid x86 is an open source project which aims to port the android system produced by Google into the x86 architecture. But those images are mainly meant to work on the ARM architecture (beside some other archs). Typically, Google releases the source code of all new android versions on its website. If you have ever used a smartphone then you probably know about the android OS, and that it is an operating system made mainly for smartphones and other small devices by Google.
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