Sunday, June 7, 2020

Android 8.1 Oreo on Nexus 7 2012 WiFi

Thanks to ud4, LineageOS team, TeamWin and everyone else that made this build possible.
  1. Backup / transfer personal data (texts, photos, videos, apps, etc)

  2. Read [ROM][grouper] [8.1.0] [UNOFFICIAL] LineageOS 15.1 [2020/05/22]
    • download lineage-15.1-20200522-UNOFFICIAL-grouper.zip (270 MB)
    • download MindTheGapps-8.1.0-arm-20180808-grouper.zip (53 MB)

  3. Download Android SDK / platform-tools

  4. Install TWRP (Team Win Recovery Project) for Nexus 7 2012 Wifi
    (twrp-3.3.1-0-grouper.img, 9.6 MB)

    Follow Fastboot Install Method (No Root Required) section.

  5.  Boot into recovery mode (TWRP) with:
    adb reboot-bootloader
    Use Volume Up or Down keys to select "Recovery Mode", then press "Power".

  6. (Recommended) In TWRP, choose Wipe > Advanced Wide > Change File System for cache and  Data from EXT4 to F2FS


  7. Back to TWRP main screen > Advanced > ADB Sideload > Swipe to Start Sideload


  8. Sideload new ROM from your PC:
    adb sideload lineage-15.1-20200522-UNOFFICIAL-grouper.zip

  9. Sideload GApps ROM from your PC:
    adb sideload MindTheGapps-8.1.0-arm-20180808-grouper.zip

  10. Reboot system




Friday, April 3, 2020

Android emulator with Windows Hypervisor Platform (WHPX)

You can run the Android emulator with Windows Hypervisory Platform (WHPX) starting with Windows 10 April 2018 Update (build 1803).

Check whether you have support for Windows WHPX by going to Control Panel > Programs and Features (appwiz.cpl) > Turn Windows features on and off (left):


If so, you have to uninstall Intel HAXM that you must likely used before for hardware acceleration and go ahead with Windows WHPX.

You can see all the details on Android's Configure hardware acceleration for the Android Emulator page > Configure VM acceleration on Windows.

You can run the AVD from command line to see what it uses:

> ANDROID-SDK\emulator\emulator.exe -list-avds
...

> ANDROID-SDK\emulator\emulator.exe -avd <avd_name>
...
Windows Hypervisor Platform accelerator is operational
...

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