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Android x86 with Google talk back (self.Blind)
submitted by peggy2033
Since I’m a weird person and I like to experiment with things a lot I decided to pull out an old windows Lenovo tablet laying around and install android x86 to experiment with. My main operating system I use is iOS so I’m android deprived. It didn’t really work properly since there was a weird double tap timeout and I could freely roam around without the double tap or gestures. I forgot to charge it so I didn’t last long but tomorrow I want to experiment with it a bit more.
bradley22 1 points 2y ago
Have fun tinckering :)
peggy2033 [OP] 1 points 2y ago
I saw some of the comments below but I wanted to give a little update since this is pretty interesting. Google docs actually works unlike the iOS application using voiceover. I can edit my documents scroll through lines and basically do everything else I have wanted to do.
Winnmark 1 points 2y ago
Android x86?
*WHAT?*
*WHAT?*
peggy2033 [OP] 2 points 2y ago
Yeah, there’s multiple projects going on at the moment to port android which is only on ARM processors on to more modern computer processors. Sorry if this doesn’t explain much, this is the only way I thought of explaining it.
Winnmark 1 points 2y ago
No, no. I know what you're talking about, I just wasn't aware that people were trying to port it over.
DerBoy_DerG 1 points 2y ago
I don't know anything about these community projects, but Android itself supporting x86 builds is nothing new - there were a few x86 phones with Intel processors. Also, when developing apps yourself, you'll run them either on your own phone or inside the emulator. For the latter you'll use x86 images as that's the only way to get acceptable performance on an x86 CPU.
Fun fact: Android even supported MIPS at one point.
Fun fact: Android even supported MIPS at one point.
Sagar5786 1 points 2y ago
Hi there it'll be better if you can get a cheap android device? Specially it will have android 10 or 11, for a matter of fact otherwise you will see experiences like that
peggy2033 [OP] 1 points 2y ago
Sounds good
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