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But an open source port of the operating system called Android-x86 has been making it easy to install Google’s software on PCs with x86 chips for years. Now the future of that project looks a ...

Working with the Android OS on a desktop computer environment takes personal computing in a new direction. How many will follow it remains to be seen. The release of Android-x86 version 4.4-RC1 ...

Android-x86 now supports booting from and installing on UEFI systems. It also has wider support for hardware such as multi-touch screens, audio, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Camera, and more.

Remix OS is a desktop-optimized port of Android-x86 that can be installed on a flash drive and booted on almost any computer.

If you have some old hardware, or share a computer and want your own personal Android OS you can carry around, Remix OS for PC is a good place to start.

Android-x86 also now provides a normal looking mouse cursor, instead of a simple circle, taken from Android Nougat. Installing Android-x86, however, might not be for the faint of heart.

Jide worked with the developers behind the Android-x86 project to bring Remix OS to desktops. The current build is a version of Remix OS 2.0 which is based on Android 5.0 Lollipop.

A startup called BlueStacks has developed an Android runtime environment for the Windows operating system. It will enable users to run Android applications alongside conventional Windows software ...

The team at the Android-x86 project Abba released their latest version of an Android based desktop operating system, offering an open source platform that can run Android 9 Pie on a desktop ...