Download Android-x86 8.1-rc2

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 released Android-x86 8.1-rc2 based on Android 8.1.0 Oreo MR1 a few days ago. Google released this Android version in December 2017 and it took a while to get it stable on the x86 platform. The abbreviated announcement of the Android-x86 8.1-rc2 release looks like this:

Android-x86 8.1-rc2 (Oreo-x86)

The Android-x86 project is glad to announce the 8.1-rc2 release to public. This is the second release candidate for Android-x86 8.1 (oreo-x86). The prebuilt images are available in the following sites: https://www.fosshub.com/Android-x86.html

Key Features

The 8.1-rc2 release is based on the latest Android 8.1.0 Oreo MR1 release (8.1.0_r48). We fixed issues found in the since 8.1-rc1 and upgraded some important components:

• Update to the latest stable kernel 4.18.14.
• Update Mesa to 18.2.2 with LLVM 7.0.
• Allow to set resolution via standard video=x kernel cmdline for all GPUs.
• Fix apk can’t be installed on 9p filesystem.