If you want to experience the magic of Google mobile operating system Android charm, but is reluctant to spend a few thousand dollars of money to buy expensive Android phones, and that the PC port version of Android may be a good choice.
You may recall that it was just released before the media, the success of the Internet in ASUS Android installed on this system for news, but for ordinary users, it was just an experimental product. To really installed, there are enormous difficulties and work.
However, the efforts of a number of Chinese software engineers, China’s users have been able to enjoy this truly the Internet can be installed on the use of Android, and this is the Sun Yi, Huang Zhiwei, and Corentin Chary and several other developers who are participating in an active The Android-x86 open source project. In addition, there are other developers, such as Kelly2.Blue, Wu Hai Gang, Swand ke and Wallace1 wang, they are from mainland China and Taiwan, the Chinese software engineers.
Sun Yi sent in the latest version of update statement, made it clear that: they have solved many technical problems, including the Chinese Pinyin input method of the bug amendment, Bluetooth support, wireless LAN support, SSL revisions of the bug, or even already be installed directly into the Internet in this, from the hard disk. With these problems, China’s PC users to use Android for work and study to become truly viable. The system is now available to download http://code.google.com/p/android-x86/downloads/list. 10 seconds or so start-up time and practical Internet access for many users, a trial should be a good reason.
According to reports, this project was originally a large number of Google’s engineers work is carried out by Dima Zavin and then there are a lot of people have contributed some code, such as VMware and VirtualBox’s support was provided by a man named Chen Yang (also a program in Beijing, China Clerk) completed. Sun Yi said, “on the basis of their work we have done a lot of improvement and modification before they can release now.”
Sun Yi believes that the significance of this project is that, first, it could serve as a starting point to go for the PC’s desktop environment to provide a complete solution for Android, and now the Android-x86 very suitable for UMPC or MID, but for a traditional desktop applications, Android have a lot of work to do. Second, it can provide developers with a fast low-cost development environment, I know, many people are using Andorid-x86 as their development tool. Thirdly, many people learn to use Android-x86 most Android tools.
It is understood that the open-source start of the project is fully internationalized. Sun Yi, said: “foreign to our attention, the project is still pretty good. From Google Analytics to see the foreign clients mainly from the United States, Italy, France and Britain. Generally speaking, our website visitors come from more than 120 different countries. our project web site traffic has continued to increase. ”
Of course, for this open source project and they put a lot of time. Sun Yi said: “I basically every night of time spent on this project.” Android engineers sometimes get some help.
In addition, when asked how they see the Chrome OS, the Sun Yi said, “I have not seen ChromeOS, does not it say so. According to Google’s blog, open source ChromeOS will be announced later this month, to the time when we may there will be some comparison. ”