The Nintendo Switch has been one of Nintendo’s most popular gaming devices, with nearly 80 million devices shipped by the end of 2020, enough for the hybrid game console to have outsold the Nintendo 3DS. While the Switch is designed to be a game console that you can use as a handheld device or while […]
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Now you can run Android on the Nintendo Switch (older models only)
Folks have been hacking the Nintendo Switch and running Linux on it for nearly a year and a half. A few months ago someone started porting Windows 10 to run on the portable game console. And now you can run Android on a Switch. Switchroot LineageOS 15.1 from basically turns the Switch into an Android […]
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Nintendo Switch’s unofficial Android port is making good progress
Earlier this year a small team of hackers showed off a work-in-progress version of Google Android running on the Nintendo Switch game console. At the time it was pretty buggy and didn’t seem like something you’d really want to use. But the developers have made a lot of progress since then. Recent builds support hardware-accelerated […]