Download Android-x86 7.1-r1

The Android-x86 project focuses on porting Android to the x86 platform. In addition, it does not emulate Android like BlueStacks App Player, Nox App Player and Genymotion do well. The developers have released Android-x86 7.1-r1 based on Android 7.1 Nougat. Nougat version 7.1 was released in October 2016 and apparently it took some time to get it stable on the x86 platform. The abbreviated announcement of the Android-x86 7.1-r1 release looks like this:

Android-x86 7.1-r1 (Nougat-x86)

The Android-x86 project is glad to announce the 7.1-r1 release to public. This is the first stable release for Android-x86 7.1 (nougat-x86). The prebuilt images are available in the following site:

Key Features
The 7.1-r1 release is based on the latest Android Nougat-MR2 release (7.1.2_r36). We have fixed most issues found in the since 7.1-rc2 and added more features:

• Android x86 installer was improved a lot including:
  • Create EFI boot entry to efibootmgr.
  • Add auto-installation function which is useful to install Android-x86 as the only one OS.
  • Provide more information on disk and partition selection menu.
  • Add advanced options to provide more boot options.
  • Save the last choice in grub2 menu.
• Update kernel to the LTS kernel 4.9.80 with more patches from AOSP.
• Add a new HAL for iio type sensors.
• Show poweroff menu by ctrl-alt-del.
• Fix a lot of bugs.

Except the traditional ISO files, we also package android-x86 files into a Linux package rpm. It allows Linux users to easily install the release into an existing Linux device with a standalone ext4 root partition.

Known issues

• Google Play Services sometimes crashes.
• Suspend and resume doesn’t work on some devices.