Android 4.4 R3 (for Pc / Laptop)

Android-x86 is an unofficial initiative to port Google's Android mobile operating system to run on devices powered by AMD and Intel x86 processors, rather than RISC-based ARM chips.

The project began as a series of patches to the Android source code to enable Android to run on various netbooks and ultra-mobile PCs—particularly the ASUS Eee PC.

Chih-Wei Huang and Yi Sun maintain the project.

The OS is based on the AOSP, with some minor modifications which allow it to run on PC architecture. For instance, some low-level components are replaced to better suit the platform, such as the kernel (AOSP runs on a modified version of the Linux Kernel, whereas Android-x86 runs on the long-term Linux Kernel available at the time of release), the Bionic library (replaced with components from GCC) and others.

Android-x86 is based on 4.4 KitKat and features good Intel Bay Trail support, together with hardware acceleration for Nouveau and VMware’s VMWgfx Gallium3D drivers.

This release contains a lot of improvements including

Upgrade the kernel to 4.0.8 with more drivers enabled to support modern hardware.
Baytrail platform is well supported.
Replace Bluedroid by the Bluez stack. Bluetooth is more stable and usable.
Be able to install image and grub2-efi to GPT partitioned disks.
Add a new sensor HAL to support iio style sensors.
Update Mesa to 10.5.9. Enable hardware acceleration for Nvidia chips (nouveau) and
VMware (vmwgfx).
Improve the GPS HAL.
Merge updates from upstream.
More bug fixes.