Ever wanted to install an android operating system on your computer. Maybe on the computer, you're using right now. Do you know you can install Android OS on your computer just like you install Windows OS? An Android operating system is almost similar to the Android operating system, which is found in major smartphones. Just like that when you install it on a computer you could use Play store to download and run Android apps and games — right on your computer.
Android AutoAndroid Auto now comes built-in, so you can simply plug in your phone and start using Android on your car's display. No app download needed. No app download needed. Dynamic System Updates This feature allows developers to load a different system image on their device for testing without affecting their original system image. Bliss is an Android Operating System you can download its ISO and can create bootable USB to install it on your PC. This is also Android 9 ISO for Virtualbox, you can install this on Virtual Box as well. Also, this is the Android 9 ISO for PC and you can download android 9.0 ISO. For Android 9 Pie ISO Download follow the method below.
What mobile device can get Android 11 preview?
Pixel, Pixel 2, Pixel 2 XL, Pixel 2 are the Google smartphones to get the Android 11 preview ahead of all. Users can get the Preview from this google's page.
First, know that you can set up an Android environment on your computer using Google's official Android SDK. Otherwise, skip to this for instructions to install Android OS on your computer natively (not within Windows) It'd be similar to installing and booting just like Windows and Linux.
Install Android 11 with Android Studio
Step 1. Install JAVA SE Development KIT from here. Accept the license agreement and install the SDK appropriate to your operating system. Otherwise, you'll get FAILED TO LOAD JVM DLL' error. After that install Android SDK.
Step 2. Install Google Android SDK / Studio
You have to download the Android Studio package which is 1Gb in size. The Android Studio is a bundle of tools that helps in creating Android apps.
- Go to the Android Studio preview download page.
- Select the SDK package for your OS, i.e Windows.
- When download finishes, unzip/install/run whichever is appropriate.
Open Android Studio with the Studio64.exe file under /bin folder. The setup is simple, click on Next, Choose Standard type of installation. Proceed and it will be done in a couple of minutes, meanwhile, all the required components should be installed. It will take some time to download files from the Google server.
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Step 3. Open Android Studio again, and this time open AVD Manager, which is located inside in the Configure menu (see screenshot)
Next up click on Create Virtual Device, then Select either Pixel Devices or tablet screen for a better experience, next select Android 11 and proceed.
Step 4. Allow some minutes to finalize the process, if you haven't VT-X mode enabled go to your BIOS settings and turn it on. This allows virtualization software to use resources efficiently to improve performance. When launching options prompt, you can use the option to scale display to real size and wipe user data.
Further instructions to emulate android P on the computer. (Android Dev)
How to boot a real Android Operating system on Computer.
Follow these instructions to install android on a machine running on Intel processor (32-bit and 64-bit). Most of the computers nowadays are 64-bit so they can flawlessly run Android Operating system. First, you need to grab these things.
The number one question comes that may strike your mind will be where to get an android operating system image file in either ISO or IMG file.
Where to Download Android OS
Before getting into how to install the android os on your computer, you need to know where to find them to download. Just like Linux distributions, there are many companies or groups of peoples who releases android builds, let's know what kind of Android OS builds are available on the internet. The Android x86 is a project to port Android Builds for the x86 And x64 machines. The other Android OS like Remix OS and Phoenix OS are highly customized to do more things and are based on the same Android x86 project.
- Android x86: Stock Android port (32-bit & 64-bit).
- Remix OS and Phoenix OS: Customized android port (32-bit & 64-bit)
- Other OS, for instance, OpenThos.
I'm going to take the Android 9 P build from the Android x86 (also remix OS) and demo you to install it on a computer.
Note: Perhaps, installing Android is easy and doesn't involve complication but you may face some limitations depending on your computer hardware. For instance sound, Wifi and Bluetooth may not work, though LAN internet/USB tethering will always work. Apart from that, you can run all the essential Android apps and games from the play store. In this post, you'll learn to install Android operating system on your computer, and there are more than one ways, so let's check them one by one.
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Prerequisite
- Get Android Build from the Android x86 website according to your computer architecture. If your computer is 32-bit, then download an android build of 32-bit (x86), or if your computer is 64-bit then download a 64-bit (x64 / Amd64) build.
- Download the Rufus Tool
- A USB Drive.
Step #1. Prepare installation media: Download both required files (Android OS image and Rufus tool) and save them on your computer in the same folder for ease.
Step #2. Plug the USB driver and Open the Rufus tool. Drag the iso file inside the Rufus tool. Click Start to let the tool burn that image file to your USB drive, it may tool from several seconds to several minutesdepending on the size of the Image file and type of the USB.
Note: The USB drive will be formatted to create installation media, so backup if you have anything important on it.
Booting into Android OS.
Step #3. Now turn off the computer if you're going to install Android OS on the same.
Step #4. Plug the USB drive into the computer. When the computer boots, press Esc button to pause loading your existing operating system and to display Boot Options, then press F9 button (HP Laptops) to select the boot device.
Step #5. In this case, I'll select the External USD Hard Drive option. Choosing Boot option may be different on your computer, but try your luck massing 'ESC, F1, F8, F10, Delete key' and combinations.
If things were gone right, you'd see the menu to boot Android from the USB. Select the option to run the Android OS without installing on your hard drive. The Remix OS gives 2 options,
- Resident mode: Will make persistence installation on the USB, so your data will be saved.
- Guest Mode: to test the Android operating system on your computer, this is helpful when you want to check its compatibility or how it works before making a permanent installation.
Step #6. Here it is. You'll be taken through the setup prompts to select language and connect to Wi-Fi. And after that, you can use the Android operating system.
Step #7. You have to sign up with your Google account in order to activate the Play Store. To do that click on the Active Play Store icon on the desktop and enter your Google email and password and agree its terms. Just after that, the Play Store icon will be created on your desktop screen all you have to do is double-click the icon and here is the Play Store. Access all the android games and applications from play store and install them on your computer.
Play store is live.
Installing Android on PC Hard Drive
You can install Android operating system permanently on your computer's hard drive, in case you have chosen the Android x86 builds: you'll see an install option when you access the boot menu. But if you decide to Install Remix OS and other, the setup process may be different. Here are some of the helpful guide for Remix OS.
Conclusion
That's how you can run or install a whole Android operating system on your pc. Do you know why the Remix OS is on trend? because it is highly customized and you can use it on a daily basis, or as a secondary operating system. Having issue when you try to install android on pc? comment below. We've already covered news and guide about Android Operating system earlier, here are some.
Android OS is an open source mobile operating system owned by Google and developed by the Android developer community. Android is based on Linux, and it is widely used in mobile phones, and also waiting for its entry into tablets and netbook computer segment. Though it is a mobile OS, we can virtually run Android on Linux, Intel Mac and even in Windows. Live Android is a special compilation of Android OS in a CD ISO image form, that we can use to boot Android from a USB drive or CD. We can also use a desktop vitalization application like SUN VirtualBox and install (virtually) or operate Android OS in Windows and other OS platforms. Though we cannot exactly reproduce and use Android just like as in mobile phones, give it a try if you are planning to buy an Android device or curious to know about its user interface, menu options, etc. Here we will point you to the Live Android download, and help you to install Android OS in Windows, virtually using SUN VirtualBox application.
Download Android OS Live image version:
Download Android Live CD here.
Credits: Live Android and Google Code.
Download the 3rd(.001) and 4th(.002) links, and join the two files with HJsplit for Windows.
Now download and install SUN (Now Oracle) VirtualBox for Windows from here.
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After installation, Open VirtualBox and click on create new virtual machine .
Enter the name as Android and Operating system choice as Windows XP, Windows Vista or Windows 7. In all upcoming steps, click next after competing with all the required instructions given below.
Set memory. (keep it as default)
From radio buttons, create new hard disk.
Select Dynamically expanding storage .
Set Android virtual disk location and a suitable size (say 20GB)
Now click Finish to create a new Android VirtualBox.
Now from VirtualBox interface select Android and click start .
First run wizard opens.
In next step, select media source as image and browse to the location of the joined Live Android .ISO image .
Let the wizard complete. It will open the the Android OS home (given below) after execution. When we click mouse anywhere, it will pop-up a box- click capture and continue.
Android Home Android Menu
Install yosemite from external drive. Techknowl in Android web browser- virtually installed on Windows (click to enlarge ).
- The above stated technique is used for testing an old version of Android on Windows. You can find and download Android 4.0, and other new variants from this websiteand test it on the Virtualbox using the same procedure. The Android x86(Windows 32 bits)bit) builds given in that site works exceptionally well
with corresponding devices given in that page; however, you could use the same ISO files to create bootable USB disks (using Unetbootin ). Follow the procedure given in the Unetbootin website to build a Live, Android USB disk.
How To Install Android Os
- If you just want to run popular Android apps on your Windows or Mac (limited compatibility) desktop, try Bluestacks.
