Het Android-x86 project richt zich op het porten van Android naar het x86-platform. Daarbij emuleert het geen Android zoals BlueStacks App Player, Nox App Player en Genymotion wel doen. De ontwikkelaars hebben Android-x86 7.1-r1 uitgebracht gebaseerd op Android 7.1 Nougat. Nougat versie 7.1 werd uitgebracht in oktober 2016 en het heeft dan blijkbaar even geduurd voordat deze stabiel gekregen is op het x86-platform. De beknopte aankondiging van de Android-x86 7.1-r1 uitgave ziet er als volgt uit:
Android-x86 7.1-r1 (Nougat-x86)
The Android-x86 project is glad to announce the 7.1-r1 release to public. This is the first stable release for Android-x86 7.1 (nougat-x86). The prebuilt images are available in the following site:Key Features
- https://osdn.net/rel/android-x86/Release%207.1
- https://www.fosshub.com/Android-x86.html
The 7.1-r1 release is based on the latest Android Nougat-MR2 release (7.1.2_r36). We have fixed most issues found in the since 7.1-rc2 and added more features: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.
- Android-x86 installer was improved a lot including:
- Create EFI boot entry to efibootmgr.
- Add auto-installation function which is useful to install Android-x86 as the only one OS.
- Provide more information on disk and partition selection menu.
- Add advanced options to provide more boot options.
- Save the last choice in grub2 menu.
- Update kernel to the LTS kernel 4.9.80 with more patches from AOSP.
- Add a new HAL for iio type sensors.
- Show poweroff menu by ctrl-alt-del.
- Fix a lot of bugs.
Known issues
- Google Play Services crashes sometimes.
- Suspend and resume doesn't work on some devices.