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Pi as Droid
Android developer Peter Yoon, also known as peyo-hd, has released a port of the recent Android 7.0 "Nougat" mobile OS for the Raspberry Pi [1]. Source code for the Nougat port is available now at GitHub [2].
Other developers have created Pi-ready versions of Android in the past, but this version is the first Android 7 port to appear in the wild. Deep down, Android, like Raspbian and most other Rasp Pi operating systems, is just another variant of Linux, so in theory, it should run on any system that runs other Linux distros. The complexities of a mobile OS, however, mean that Android is a little different from other Linux distributions and often requires more tinkering to port it to alternative hardware.
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