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 alweer enkele dagen geleden Android-x86 8.1-rc1 uitgebracht, gebaseerd op Android 8.1.0 Oreo MR1. Google bracht deze Android-versie uit in december 2017 en het heeft blijkbaar even geduurd voordat het deze stabiel kreeg op het x86-platform. De beknopte aankondiging van de Android-x86 8.1-rc1-uitgave ziet er als volgt uit:
Android-x86 8.1-rc1 (Oreo-x86)
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: https://osdn.net/rel/android-x86/Release%208.1
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:Known issues
- 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.
- 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)
- Google Play Service may crash sometimes on the 32-bit image.
- Suspend and resume doesn't work on some devices.