Virtualization company releases Android 10 beta for iPhone 7

Virtualization company Corellium has released a beta of an Android 10 firmware for the iPhone 7. Among other things, the CPU and multitouch work, but many other functions do not. Android for other iPhones should be out soon.

Corellium calls it Project Sandcastle, after the sandbox in which Apple runs many elements of iOS. Android does not replace iOS, but creates a partition on the storage for running Android. The beta does not include the ability to install apps.

The screen, the cpu and wifi work, but mobile internet, the gpu and other things don’t work yet, says Corellium. Users must jailbreak their device with Checkra1n to install Android on their iPhone, Forbes writes. Installation is done via a wired connection to Mac.

The iPhone will boot iOS by default, but users can put their phone in dfu mode and hook it up to a Mac or Linux computer. Then you can boot Android from there. Removing Android is done by logging in via ssh and removing the folder.

Android 10 already works on the most recent iPod touch, and thanks to Checkra1n, it will be able to work on iPhone 5 through iPhone X in the future. The project code is on GitHub. Corellium is in a legal battle with Apple over its ability to virtualize iOS. This is not the first time that Android has run on an iPhone. Ten years ago, an Android version for the first iPhone appeared.