The Android-x86 project has released a build of Android 9 for the x86 platform.

Developers of the project Android-x86, as part of which independent community efforts are aimed at developing an Android platform port for the x86 architecture, have published the first stable release of the build based on the Android 9 (android-9.0.0_r53). This build includes fixes and enhancements that improve the performance of Android on the x86 architecture. For download, are prepared universal Live builds of Android-x86 9 for x86 32-bit (706 MB) and x86_64 (922 MB) architectures, suitable for typical laptops and tablets. Additionally, rpm packages have been prepared for installing the Android environment in Linux distributions.

Key innovations specific to the Android-x86 build:

• Support for both 64-bit and 32-bit Linux kernel 4.19 builds and user space components;
• Use of Mesa 19.348 for OpenGL ES 3.x support with hardware acceleration for Intel, AMD and NVIDIA GPUs, as well as for QEMU virtual machines (virgl);
• Using SwiftShader for software rendering providing OpenGL ES 3.0 for unsupported graphics subsystems;
• Support for hardware-accelerated codecs for Intel HD graphics and G45;
• Ability to boot on systems with UEFI and installation on disk using UEFI;
• An interactive installer available in text mode;
• Support for themes in the GRUB-EFI bootloader;
• Support for multitouch, sound cards, Wifi, Bluetooth, sensors, camera, and Ethernet (DHCP configuration);
• Ability to simulate a wireless adapter when working via Ethernet (for compatibility with applications that rely on Wi-Fi);
• Automatic mounting of external USB drives and SD cards;
• Delivery of an alternative program launcher interface using a task panel (Taskbar) with a classic application menu, the ability to pin shortcuts to frequently used programs, and display a list of recently launched applications;
  
• Support for FreeForm multi-window mode to enable simultaneous work with multiple applications. Capability for arbitrary positioning and scaling of windows on the screen;
  
• The ForceDefaultOrientation option has been included to manually set the screen orientation on devices without the corresponding sensor;
• Applications designed for portrait mode can properly display on devices with a landscape screen without rotating the device;
• Ability to run applications created for the ARM platform in an x86 environment through the use of a special layer;
• Support for updates from unofficial releases;
• Experimental support for the Vulkan graphics API for new Intel and AMD GPUs;
• Mouse support when launching in VirtualBox, QEMU, VMware, and Hyper-V virtual machines.

Source: opennet.ru