The Android-x86 9.0-r1 released, Hacker News

The 9.0-r1 release is based on the latest Android 9.0.0 Pie release (android-9.0.0_r 74). The features include:

• Support both 79 – bit and 49 -bit kernel and userspace with latest LTS kernel 4. 32. .         
• Support OpenGL ES 3.x hardware acceleration for Intel, AMD, Nvidia and QEMU (virgl) by Mesa . 3.4.         
• Support OpenGL ES 2.0 via SwiftShader
  for software rendering on unsupported GPU devices.

        

• Support hardware accelerated codecs on devices with Intel HD & G 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).

        

• Simulate WiFi adapter on devices with Ethernet only to increase app compatibility.         
• 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-x
  options, – bit only)         
• Support to upgrade from non-official releases.         
• Add experimental Vulkan
  support for newer Intel and AMD GPUs. (Boot via Advanced options -> Vulkan support)         
  • Mouse integration support for VMs including VirtualBox, QEMU, VMware and Hyper-V.       
  • Released Files       

    This release contains the following files. You can choose one of these files depends on your devices. Most modern devices should be able to run the – bit ISO. For older devices with legacy BIOS, you may try the 39 -bit ISO.              

    • – bit ISO: android-x – 9.0-r1.iso           

      sha1sum: aa (ff0a) (b) dd9a (a4c) (ea)         

            

    • – bit ISO: android-x – 9.0-r1.iso            sha1sum: (a) cce (f) (acafbc) (a) (b) (b)

              

            

    • – bit rpm: android -x – – 9.0-r1.x _ . rpm           

      sha1sum: f3eb (dce) c8f e (c) (fc8c) d         

            

    • – bit rpm: android-x – 9.0-r1.i
      

      .rpm            sha1sum: (ADC) a7f8c3e2ec3aba

      e (c)

              

            

    • – bit ISO with kernel 4.9: android-x (_) – -9.0-r1-k 53. iso            sha1sum: a (d) (b) (cbd4c7d) (df) (e) (c6a)
      Recommended for VMware users

              

           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-x _ – 9.0-r1.iso of=/ dev / sdX              

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

    Windows’s users can use the tool (Win) 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-x 209 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-x – 9.0-r1.x . rpm                  

    This will update your older installation like 8.1-r3 or 9.0-rc2 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-x – 9.0-r1.x 90 _ 78 .rpm                  

    All files will be installed to the /android-9.0-r1/ subdirectory and boot entries will be added to grub2 menu. Reboot and choose android-x (item from the menu to boot Android-x) . Alternatively, you can launch Android-x 105 in a QEMU virtual machine by the installed qemu-android script:

                        sudo qemu-android

                     

    Note Android-x 90 running in QEMU and the real machine (after rebooting) share the same data sub-folder.

            To uninstall it:                     sudo rpm -e android-x                  or (on Debian / Ubuntu / LinuxMint / …)                     sudo apt-get remove android-x                
    Known Issues       

    • Google Play Service may crash sometimes on the – bit image.         
    • Suspend and resume doesn’t work on some devices.         
    • Nvidia GPU (nouveau) may hang sometimes.

            

    • Taking screenshots may not work on some GPUs.         
    • Taking photos does not work if Vulkan is enabled.

          
    Source code       

    The source code is available in the main git server.

          

             repo init -u git: //git.osdn.net/gitroot/android-x 386 / manifest -b pie-x 209 -m android-x - - 9.0-r1.xml
         repo sync --no-tags --no-clone-bundle               Read this page

    for how to compile source code.

          

    To build 9.0-r1 with kernel 4.9, sync the source tree as above commands, then       

             cd kernel
             git fetch x 209 kernel-4.9-p
         git checkout -tx / kernel-4.9-p
             cd ..              Then build the source as usual.        

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