n8xyn wrote: ↑Sat Mar 21, 2020 2:05 pm
Is there a simple answer why Android seems to be so lacking on any Raspberry Pi? Other devices for instance the Odroid line always hit the world with a fully functional Android. I'm not complaining just curious, I understand it's all volunteer work. The Pi 4 has plenty of power to support a decent Android experience.
Generally chipset manufacturers (Qualcomm, MediaTek, Allwinner, Rockchip, etc) provide Android board support package (BSP) to device manufacturers that decide to use certain chipset to build Android devices. This BSP consists of changes to Linux kernel, Android framework, as well as proprietary Android binary drivers that are needed to support the hardware (graphics, media, etc) to run Android on a specific chipset. They provide both reference hardware design and reference software for the platform. This is not the case for Raspberry Pi of course. Chipset manufacturer (Broadcom) doesn't provide any Android drivers for this platform. As for other single board computers, the chipsets that they use are commonly used on other Android devices so there is no additional development cost because these platforms were designed to run Android in the first place.
ejolson wrote: ↑Sat Mar 21, 2020 3:48 pm
Thanks for your work on LineageOS for the Raspberry Pi. Do you know
- Whether the Zoom Android app for cloud-based teleconferencing works?
- Whether it will run inside a KVM ARM qemu instance on a Pi 4B?
Again thanks for the work and don't worry if the answer to both questions is a no.
Like already said, please use the correct thread for discussion. Next person having the same question might find the answer there but zero change of finding it here after this get buried after a while.
Generally speaking you should be able to run most Android apps. I don't how well external input devices (camera, microphone, etc) you might need work with the Zoom app.
No idea if you can boot it in an emulator. I guess much better question is why would you even want to? If you want to run Android on your PC I'm sure there's much better options available.
