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Android x86 (ver. 4.0) on EeePC 701 4G. Android-x86 is an open source project that makes an unofficial porting of the Android mobile operating system developed by the Open Handset Alliance to run on devices powered by x86 processors, rather than RISC-based ARM chips.
Android 2.3 Gingerbread is the seventh version of Android, a version of the Android mobile operating system developed by Google and released in December 2010. Version [ edit ]
The main hardware platform for Android is the 64-bit ARM architecture (i.e. ARMv8-A; previously the 32-bit ARMv7 architecture was supported and first ARMv5), with x86 [d] and MIPS [e] architectures also officially supported in later versions of Android. MIPS support has since been deprecated and support was removed in NDK r17.
Android phones, like this Nexus S running Replicant, allow installation of apps from the Play Store, F-Droid store or directly via APK files. This is a list of notable applications (apps) that run on the Android platform which meet guidelines for free software and open-source software.
The main hardware platform for Android is ARM (i.e. the 64-bit ARMv8-A architecture and previously 32-bit such as ARMv7), and x86 and x86-64 architectures were once also officially supported in later versions of Android. [144] [145] [146] The unofficial Android-x86 project provided support for x86 architectures ahead of the official support.
This is a list of Android distributions, Android-based operating systems (OS) commonly referred to as Custom ROMs or Android ROMs, forked from the Android Open Source Project (AOSP) without Google Play Services included officially in some or all markets, yet maintained independent coverage in notable Android-related sources.
APK is analogous to other software packages such as APPX in Microsoft Windows, APP for HarmonyOS or a Debian package in Debian-based operating systems.To make an APK file, a program for Android is first compiled using a tool such as Android Studio [3] or Visual Studio and then all of its parts are packaged into one container file.
On 11 April 2011, the public version of CyanogenMod 7.0 was released, based on Android 2.3.3. [38] CyanogenMod 7.1 was released on 10 October 2011, based on Android 2.3.4. [ 39 ] The latest stable version, CyanogenMod 7.2 was released on 16 June 2012, based on Android 2.3.7, [ 40 ] bringing a predictive phone dialer, lock-screen updates, ICS ...