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    Phoronix: The Future Of Android-x86 Is In Question

    Android-x86 has been an open-source project for the past 7+ years for providing suitable Intel/AMD hardware support for Google's Android operating system. Unfortunately, its project leader may be stepping away...

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  • #2
    I've always been curious about this project. Who is using it? Are there any manufacturers shipping product with it pre-installed? Android is useful only on mobile devices, and ARM rules the mobile device world, so I'm honestly not sure which market Android-x86 is targeting.

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    • #3
      Originally posted by torsionbar28 View Post
      I've always been curious about this project. Who is using it? Are there any manufacturers shipping product with it pre-installed? Android is useful only on mobile devices, and ARM rules the mobile device world, so I'm honestly not sure which market Android-x86 is targeting.
      For emulation, at least, it's a hell of a lot more useful than the ARM emulator, which barely functions at all last I tried. At a previous job I designed an automated test harness that would fire up Android emulators on demand. Wouldn't have really been feasible if I'd been stuck with ARM (Genymotion may have helped; never bothered looking into it).

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      • #4
        Originally posted by torsionbar28 View Post
        I'm honestly not sure which market Android-x86 is targeting.
        x86 tablets? Any tablet-compatible Linux, including Android x86, is much useful here then preinstalled OS (Windows 8 or 10).

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        • #5
          This died the moment Intel pulled the plug on their Android efforts. Now it's just a matter of acknowledging it.

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          • #6
            So, what are those Asus phones and tablets with Atoms using then?

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            • #7
              Originally posted by devius View Post
              So, what are those Asus phones and tablets with Atoms using then?
              Snapdragons: http://www.gsmarena.com/asus_zenfone_3_ze552kl-8106.php
              And MediaTeks: http://www.gsmarena.com/asus_zenpad_...z500m-8218.php

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              • #8
                Originally posted by torsionbar28 View Post
                I've always been curious about this project. Who is using it? Are there any manufacturers shipping product with it pre-installed? Android is useful only on mobile devices, and ARM rules the mobile device world, so I'm honestly not sure which market Android-x86 is targeting.
                Check the Yoga Book from Lenovo.

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                • #9
                  Originally posted by devius View Post
                  So, what are those Asus phones and tablets with Atoms using then?
                  Proprietary/nonreleaseable stuff they got from Intel's Android SDK. This project is about running Android on a x86 PC with BIOS/UEFI which is another thing alltogether (the board firmware does all the initialization).

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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by RussianNeuroMancer View Post
                    x86 tablets? Any tablet-compatible Linux, including Android x86, is much useful here then preinstalled OS (Windows 8 or 10).
                    But then you can just run proper Linux on it.

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