INSTALLING ANDROID ON PC

Have you ever thought of installing on your PC? I know many of your surely have like I used to do. Before this, I used to think that I won’t be able to install Android on PC. If you love android and iOS and always face dilemma that which one should I choose. Then this one is surely worth reading for you and don’t need to spend lots of bucks to buy a new android device.  You don’t need to be a nerd or a computer science engineer to perform these steps. If you know how to operate a PC then this much knowledge is more than sufficient.

                If you know about virtual machine software, which lets you operate two Operating System simultaneously then here we will also be doing the same using Virtual Box. If you are thinking that you are doing something illegal then I must remind you that Android is based on Linux kernel and Linux is open source.  

STEPS TO INSTALL ANDROID ON PC:

STEP-1: You will need to install two software first.

a)      Oracle VM Virtual Box: LINK

From here, download virtual box according your system.

b)      Live Android, a live CD for Android running on x86 platforms: LINK

STEP-2: Once you have installed Virtual Box, open it and click on New and enter the required fields.

             a)      Name: anything you want to name it.

             b)      Type:  Linux (Since Android is based on Linux Kernel)

             c)       Version : Other Linux (See image below)

       

        

STEP-3:  In next dialogue box, you need to enter the memory size. 256 MB is recommended but I will suggest you 512MB for smooth operation.

STEP-4: Now you will need to create a virtual hard drive or use an existing one. However, creating new virtual drive is recommended. Then select VDI and choose fixed allocation. Allocate 2GB of memory and then click on next to create the hard disk.

(Creating Virtual Disk)

STEP-5:  If you have followed all the steps correctly, there will be a virtual device of your name(See image below). Now you need to mount the downloaded Live Android .iso file.

STEP-6: For mounting, go to Setting -> Storage. Select empty under “Storage Tree” and under “Attributes”, choose liveanroid.iso file or CD/DVD option by clicking on the right icon. Now select that file and click ok.

STEP-7: Now back under the Setting dialogue, select System tab and under “Motherboard”, Extended Features uncheck “Enable absolute pointing device”.

STEP-8- Now it is the most important and critical system if you don’t do this you won’t be

able to use your virtual Android OS. Can you guess what? Just turn it on by select START 

icon from the top.

(Click on START)

Guess what? You are done. Was that difficult? I hope not. Now enjoy complete android experience on your laptop or PC’s.

Note: You will see some prompts in between when you will Power On your android OS, don’t get hyper, just click them OK and also select the "Do not show again" check box  (See image below).

Below is a screenshot of the Android OS running on PC. This window will be shown if you have performed all the above steps correctly.

(PC running Android OS)

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