When you think of Android, you probably think of smartphones, tablets, or maybe even smart TVs. But while Google doesn’t officially offer a version of Android for laptop or desktop computers, independent developers have been porting the OS to run on those platforms for years.

And now one of those development teams is getting ready to bring Android 11 to computers with Intel or AMD chips.

Bliss OS is an Android-based operating system designed to run on devices with x86 processors, and the developers are getting ready to release a new version based on the latest version of Google’s operating system.

You can already download a recent build of Bliss OS 14 alpha from the project’s SourceForge page, or check out some notes on the upcoming release from one of tis developers at the xda-developers forum.

But in a nutshell, not only is Bliss OS updating its base to Android 11, but the team has also borrowed a feature from Chrome OS that allows Android apps that have been compiled to run on devices with ARM-based processors to work on systems with x86 chips.

Most ARM64 apps are said to work, as well as many armeabi-v7a apps… although some apps may still not work properly.

The operating system also supports Magisk, a tool that allows users to control root access and modify Android features and settings with add-on modules, and Gearlock, a utility for managing kernels, graphics, and other elements of an operating system through extensions.

On a less geeky level, while Android is designed to run on small touchscreen devices including smartphones and tablets, Bliss OS makes the operating system feel at home on desktop and laptop computers via a custom launcher that looks a bit more like Chrome OS or Windows thanks to a taskbar/dock across the bottom of the screen and Android navigation buttons in the bottom left corner.

While Bliss OS isn’t the only project that brings Android 11 to PCs, it’s much more actively developed these days than the granddaddy of them all: the Android-x86 project hasn’t seen a major release since May, and the latest stable builds are based on Android 7.1 (although there are release candidates based on Android 9.0).

via xda-developers and @electrikjesus (1)(2)(3)

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8 replies on “Bliss OS 14 Alpha lets you run Android 11 on a PC”

  1. I was able to get this version to work on my desktop, its Bliss-v11.14–OFFICIAL-20210422-1557_x86_64_k-k4.19.122-ax86-ga-rmi_m-20.1.0-llvm90_dgc-p9.0-11.13_foss_intelhd

    my laptop also has nvidia 3d card, and it doesn’t work with the same iso image, used an usb to run the live mode on both, also noticed that they removed google play store that something I want in my android x86 , anyway I need an intelhd version of android 11 I think , I tried the 3 Bliss os android 11 iso released already for the bliss os, none of them seem to boot up on my desktop gigabyte brand intel i7 brand processor, or my asus intel i7 laptop. so far I only been able to boot up android 9 on my windows 10 computers, desktop was designed for windows 8, and laptop came with windows 10. I have not yet found intelhd versions of the newer Bliss os if you can recommend some that work that would be great. below is the source forge official link i found.

    https://sourceforge.net/projects/blissos-x86/files/Official/bleeding_edge/Generic%20builds%20-%20Pie/11.14/

  2. Wow – now I can run the marginal version of Excel from the Play Store on my desktop! That’s useless.

    There is really nothing in the Play Store that is usable on the desktop that doesn’t already have a better desktop version. Other than the ability to say ‘look what I did’ what is the point to this?

    1. computers reaching end of life
      There are a lot of Atom laptops and tablets that were sold with 2GB of Ram. They came with windows 10 but Windows 10, with all the current updates in place, barley functions for just surfing the web. I have one of these with a pared down version of Linux with Edge-Chrome. Apps would be nice
      When comparing the need run an apps on a PC choosing exel your are making a joke of your answer

  3. Bluestacks is a powerhog and bundleware and etc., I have stoped using it long time ago, all in one word is bad spy.. software.

  4. Is there anything that lets you run Android in a window inside of Windows 10? I’m thinking about being able to copy/paste between Windows and Android.

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