All that you've been searching for Finally, Android is on the iPhone.Developer Nick Lee has earned himself a reputation for putting weird and wacky
There's just one catch
you need a special, 3D-printed smartphone case to make it work.
operating systems on Apple gadgets, including Windows 95 on an Apple watch. Now, he's gone the practical route of bringing an Android OS to iPhone. There's just one catch
Lee decided to clone the Android Open Source Project (AOSP) and make a custom version of Android Marshmallow he could run on a board he bought himself. He then 3D printed an iPhone-sized enclosure he found on Thingiverse, and combined the board, a battery, a boost converter, and resistor to make a lightweight case. At first, it was quite bulky, resembling a brick you'd be more likely to have seen in a cellphone store 15 years ago.
While there are many embedded Android development boards on the market, my criteria substantially narrowed the list of suitable candidates. I settled on the following requirements:Horsepower: the device must capture, compress, and transmit the screen’s contents in realtime at high frame rates.
- Compatibility: the device must run the latest version of Android (version 6.0.1 Marshmallow at the time of this writing).
- Size: the board must be small and thin — approximately the dimensions of a credit card, the height of a USB connector.
- Connectivity: The board needs built-in Wi-Fi and Bluetooth because I don’t want to write drivers to bridge these to the iPhone’s connections. Also, it needs built-in USB 2.0 for a high-speed, reliable connection to the host iPhone.
With these criteria in mind, I chose the Lemaker HiKey. While its 8-core, 64-bit ARM Cortex-A53 processor has more than enough power to run virtually any Android app on the market, it sports a unique party piece: it’s the official reference board of the Android Open Source Project. As a result, most of the HiKey’s necessary components are included directly in the AOSP source tree (a lifesaver). That said, getting my custom AOSP build to run successfully was still a tall order, requiring me to (among other things) recompile the kernel with performance-oriented tweaks to the USB driver.
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