Install Android on his Raspberry Pi 3 Model B & B+ (update 2018 Model)

This article will explain how to install and configure Android 7.1.1 (with the Play Store) on your raspberry pi.

Above all, it is important to point out that this is only an experimental setup. No version of Android is officially compatible with the raspberry pi and therefore the version we will install is not optimized for our dear motherboard. It is therefore difficult today to use Android on a daily basis on its raspberry pi even if the installation we are going to present turns relatively well.

Prerequisites to install Android

After this short introduction, let’s take stock of everything we need to complete this installation.

Of course, you need a Raspberry pi 3
A power supply
A SD card at least 16GB and it is important that it has a good speed of reading / writing.
You will also need a screen and an HDMI cable to display the beautiful Android interface. You can also use the official touch screen of the foundation that does not require the use of an HDMI cable

Then you will need to download the Android image and sh script that will install the Play Store.

ATTENTION, for the last part of the tutorial, you will have to use a machine with an unix OS (Linux or Mac OS) to be able to execute the sh script. If you do not have one, you can use a virtual machine. Here we indicate commands for a Debian like distro (such as Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Elementary Os, and a lot of others).

All Download Link

1) LineageOS

A) lineage-14.1-20180118-UNOFFICIAL-KonstaKANG-rpi3.zip

https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=746010030569947763

B) lineage-15.1-20180307-UNOFFICIAL-KonstaKANG-rpi3.zip
https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=890129502657588904

Update version ↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑

2) Win32DiskImager Here https://sourceforge.net/projects/win32diskimager/

Step To Install the Android OS To a Raspberry Pi 3

A video walk-through is at the bottom of the page if needed.

1… The first step is to download the LineageOS 15.1 Android 8.0.1 Build from konstakang.com which has the Download link.

Go to the page page scroll down and Download the newest version here.

http://konstakang.com/devices/rpi3/LineageOS15.1/

2… After the file is download it will need to be Extracted to get to the Image file.

If you are using Windows simply right click on the Downloaded File and click Extract ALL.

3… Once the Image file is unzipped it can be written to a Micro SD-card the Pi uses.

Image writing software is used to write the package to a SD-Card. If you already have Image software use it.