Developers of the project , within which an independent community is developing a port of the Android platform for the x86 architecture, first stable build release based on platform (android-9.0.0_r53). The assembly includes fixes and additions that improve the work of Android on the x86 architecture. For loading universal live builds of Android-x86 9 for x86 32-bit (706 MB) and x86_64 (922 MB) architectures, suitable for use on typical laptops and tablet PCs. 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 builds of the Linux 4.19 kernel and user-space components;
- Applying Mesa 19.348 to support OpenGL ES 3.x with hardware accelerated graphics for Intel, AMD, and NVIDIA GPUs, as well as for QEMU (virgl) virtual machines;
- Using for software rendering with OpenGL ES 3.0 for unsupported video subsystems;
- Support for hardware-accelerated codecs for Intel HD and G45 graphics chips;
- The ability to boot on systems with UEFI and the ability to install to disk when using UEFI;
- The presence of an interactive installer that works in text mode;
- Support for bootloader themes in GRUB-EFI;
- Support for multi-touch, sound cards, Wifi, Bluetooth, sensors, camera and Ethernet (configuration via DHCP);
- The ability to simulate a wireless adapter when working via Ethernet (for compatibility with applications tied to Wi-Fi);
- Automatic mounting of external USB drives and SD cards;
- Supply of an alternative interface for launching programs using the taskbar () with a classic application menu, the ability to pin shortcuts to frequently used programs and display a list of recently launched applications;
- FreeForm multi-window support to support multiple applications at the same time. Possibility of arbitrary positioning and scaling of windows on the screen;
- Enabled the ForceDefaultOrientation option to manually set the screen orientation on devices without an appropriate sensor;
- Programs designed for portrait mode can be displayed correctly on devices with a landscape screen without rotating the device;
- The ability to run applications created for the ARM platform in the x86 environment through the use of a special layer;
- Support for updating from unofficial releases;
- Experimental support for the Vulkan graphics API for new Intel and AMD GPUs;
- Mouse support when running in VirtualBox, QEMU, VMware and Hyper-V virtual machines.
Source: opennet.ru