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by listic 3954 days ago
Doesn't Android itself support x86? There are phones [1] and tablets [2] base on Intel chips, after all, and they run Android.

[1] http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/smartphones/smartphon...

[2] http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/tablets/shop-tablets....
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yohui 3954 days ago
Intel officially supports Android on x86 (for development, not daily use) via Android-IA: https://01.org/android-ia

They used to have an FAQ which acknowledged the unofficial Android-x86 project: https://web.archive.org/web/20140331192152/https://01.org/an...

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ChuckMcM 3954 days ago
Yes, I use Android on x86 every day on my Lenovo Yoga 2 Pro tablet. That said, sometimes Apps get bent by the underlying architecture difference. The only one that really hurt was 1Password but the folks at Agilebits fixed that reasonably quickly. There seems to be some additional "optimizing" stages in installs which has me suspecting they do an ARM->x86 translation for some binaries but I haven't had time to dig deeper.
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niedzielski 3954 days ago
Android-x86 is _designed_ to run on PCs and in VirtualBox (no OpenGL ES support). It's been around for a while. I believe Console OS[0] drew some inspiration from it.

[0] http://consoleos.com/

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