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HIGHLIGHTS Here's a guide on how to add native Intel x86 support for your Android apps. Adding native support helps to drastically improve the performance of Android apps, when running on Intel ...

The project is called Android-x86 and it consists of a team that tries to provide a solution for Android on Eee PC’s and x86 platforms. The team managed to work up to Android 2.3 Gingerbread ...

Similarly, if you have an x86 Windows 8 tablet, you could always install previously mentioned BlueStacks and emulate Android without even leaving Windows, but that's definitely a performance hit ...

If you have an x86 Chromebook, Chrome OS uses Android's built-in Arm-to-x86 binary translation. If you're on a Linux desktop OS, an installation of Anbox will do the same thing—loading the ...

The Android-x86 team used the Dell Inspiron Mini Duo, the Lenovo ThinkPad x61 tablet and ASUS Eee PCs and netbooks to install the RC. How to Install? Use a Windows netbook which is not of any use ...

Working with the Android OS on a desktop computer environment takes personal computing in a new direction. How many will follow it remains to be seen. The release of Android-x86 version 4.4-RC1 ...