Ok, we all love android, don't we? Well, what if I told you that you can comfortably run the android operating system right from your own desktop or laptop without making any change whatsoever to your system? Would u actually believe me? Well, I've done it before and sure I'll teach you how you can do that too.

Step 1:

You're gonna need a USB flash drive or a memory card that's at least 2GB in size(remember I told you that we're making no changes to your computer? So, yeah we're booting from the flash drive). Be sure to copy anything you want off of it, because you’ll need to format it as part of this process. So everything that’s currently on the drive will be lost forever. No pressure.

You're also gonna need to download the Android x86 from here.

While that’s downloading, you’ll also want to download Rufus, a free Windows tool that will install Android onto the flash drive for us. It’s completely portable, so download and store it wherever you want—no installation necessary.

Once everything is finished, launch Rufus. You may get a warning from Windows asking if you want to allow Rufus to make changes to your device—just click “Yes.”

With Rufus up and running, go ahead and choose your USB drive in the top dropdown box. this is a crucial step to get correct, since Rufus will erase the drive in question. If you have more than one removable drive inserted into your computer, double-check the drive letter to make sure you’re installing to the correct one!

Next, make sure “FAT32” is selected from the File System dropdown.

Lastly, tick the “Create bootable disc using” box, then select ISO Image from the dropdown.

Click the little CD drive-looking icon next to “ISO Image” to select the Android x86 ISO file you downloaded earlier.

Once your file has been selected, it will do a quick scan-check of the file to confirm all is well. Assuming everything checks out, you’re ready to install this thing. Click the Start button to make it happen.

A dialog box should appear here letting you know that the file is an ISOHybrid image, which makes it can be written one of two ways: as an ISO or DD image. The default and recommended method—ISO Image—should be pre-selected. Go ahead and click “OK” to confirm.

One more warning will appear to let you know that everything on the drive will be erased. Click “OK” to move forward, brave soldier.

The process of installing the ISO to the drive shouldn’t take long at all. A green progress bar will show up at the bottom to let you know when the process has been completed. Once it’s done, you can close Rufus and remove your flash drive.

Step 2:

Boot from your USB Drive. Next, you’ll want to boot your computer from that USB drive.

Provided everything is set up properly, you should be able to just start your PC and press a key like F10 or F12 to enter a boot menu (this may vary from computer to computer). From there, select your USB drive.

After you get it all figured out, a menu will show up asking how you’d like to run the installation: Live CD mode or Install it to the hard disk. Since we’re just testing things out here, choose the first option to run Android x86 without installing it.

After a few seconds, you should see the Android boot animation. Give it a few seconds or minutes, and the setup menu will appear.

Go ahead and follow the on-screen instructions to get logged in with your Google account—it’s all smooth sailing from here, just like setting up any other Android device.

Using Android x86 on Your Computer

If you’ve used Android before, you’ll find the experience to be exactly the same as a tablet or phone. The keyboard and mouse should work fine with Android, though using an operating system designed for touch with a mouse is always going to be slightly awkward. If you have a touch screen laptop, then the experience should feel much more natural.

Here are a few additional pointers:

- Touchpad gestures, like two-finger dragging and whatnot, will work perfectly in Android. Hover over the notification bar and drag down with two fingers—the notification shade should appear.
- Long-pressing works exactly the same as on a touch device: just long-click the mouse. Right clicks won’t work.
- The Windows key works as a home button—pressing it will send you right back to the home screen.
All media keys should also work out of the box. Volume, brightness, and track controls for music were flawless on my test system (a Dell XPS 13).
- If your laptop has a webcam, that should also work with the camera app.
- When you’re ready to exit Android x86, just hit your computer’s power button. The “Power Off” dialog will show up just like normal—power down, remove your USB drive, and restart the computer to get back into Windows.

Your mileage may vary with all of these things depending on drivers and whatnot, but in my experience, everything worked swimmingly.

It’s also worth noting that this is still very much a beta project—plan on experiencing certain quirks and bugs during your use. You could use it as your daily operating system, but it doesn’t appear to be intended for that sort of use right now. But hey, you do you, man—if you like it, reboot from USB and choose the “install to hard disk” option and enjoy. Just make sure you back up your data first.


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Good stuff! Will rest from using bluestacks.

wydmag:
Good stuff! Will rest from using bluestacks.

am telling u bro, that app sucks these days

Nice one, but I'll still stick to stack.

this isn't new really, there's stable Remix OS by Jide Technology

henryobinna:
this isn't new really, there's stable Remix OS by Jide Technology

Have u used it before?

benniearinze:

Have u used it before?

yes, it's looks slightly like mac interface.

works perfectly like a desktop OS, according to jide technology the recent update (released last year) would have/should have support for game controller/pad.

they also have a laptop running same OS check it out here www.droidpost.com/2016/05/cheap-affordable-79-android-mini-laptop-running-remix-os.html

henryobinna:
yes, it's looks slightly like mac interface.

works perfectly like a desktop OS, according to jide technology the recent update (released last year) would have/should have support for game controller/pad.

they also have a laptop running same OS check it out here www.droidpost.com/2016/05/cheap-affordable-79-android-mini-laptop-running-remix-os.html

Aiit, suit yaself

benniearinze:

am telling u bro, that app sucks these days

i saw android x86 tagged with 6.0 and 5.1 does dat mean dat there are differnt versions more important tly they com e with different ui. Which ome have u tried an can u suggest 1.

exclusivesam53:
i saw android x86 tagged with 6.0 and 5.1 does dat mean dat there are differnt versions more important tly they com e with different ui. Which ome have u tried an can u suggest 1.

just like they have different versions for the mobile version, they also have those different versions for the system version too. I used the 5.1 though. I guess that one is more stable