12/8/2020: A weekend Raspberry Pi project

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December 8, 2020

Putting Android on a Raspberry Pi

Plus: Apple’s fancy headphones, a $20 smartwatch, and voiceless voice assistants

This week’s issue of Advisorator was brought to you in large part by a Raspberry Pi running Android.

That is, I took one of Raspberry Pi’s cheap, programmable mini-computers, installed Android on it, plugged it into my monitor, and proceeded to use it much like a regular computer. I used a Markdown editor called Easymark to write, synced my documents to OneDrive with another app called Autosync, and used Samsung’s internet browser—honestly, the best large-screen Android web browser I could find—for research.

The experience was admittedly not effortless. Android doesn’t officially work with Raspberry Pi devices, so support instead comes from a lone developer by the name of Konstakang. His Android 10 build is a somewhat-buggy work in progress, performance can get pokey at times, and getting everything up and running the way I wanted on my Raspberry Pi 4 took a solid few hours.

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