There even was a dualbooting ROM for the LG G2 D802 wich had... 16gb storage, i LOVE how people talk without having a single clue of what they're talking about x).
LG G2 ran lollipop
i love how you dont know crap. if you read what i wrote i said that newer versions of android use a lot more space than older versions
the lg g2 ran lollipop, a 5 year old OS
learn to read and comprehend
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No one here has said that the Switch would need to run Oreo, though. There's nothing wrong with running an old version, as long as it's higher than Kit-Kat
Lollipop introduced support for 64 bit processors. Aka higher than KitKat. Good lord man stop while you're ahead
What would someone do once they have Android running on a Switch anyway? Whatever those apps are, surely its easier to port those same apps to the Switch OS than hoping for the whole of Android to be ported over.
>4.4.2 =/= >=4.4.2
I understand that my wording was confusing but I clearly meant higher than, but not including. Porting Lollipop would be more than feasible and you know it, you're just being difficult at this point
I just sit here, watching people fight oversizes of their Android OSes... While in reality the are bloated because of OEM crap and a ASOP is pretty small. Hell Oreo for OnePlus 5, Lineage 15.1 is just 650mb zipped, around 2gb installed. So... yeah... pretty small.
Yeah, that's another thing; custom ROMs can drastically cut down on the install size
Indeed! You don't need all fancy crap! Samsungs are bloaty. LG is not that bad... Don't get me started on Lenovo.
OnePlus is pretty clean. So if anyone would be able to make an Android version for this system, they should cut out all that is possible for a base, then make people flash in what they need instead. Simpler and lighter.
You can get custom stock Android roms for the Nvidia Shield TV, which shares the same Tegra chip as the Switch. I'd imagine this is doable, but I can't understand why someone would go through the effort of making it happen.
Seems to me like the kind of thing people hope to be able to do, just for the sake of it. I'd bet if someone made it happen, people would soon reflash the Switch OS back again.
I think a more interesting challenge would be if people can get the Switch OS and its games to run on a Nvidia Shield TV device. You could basically turn it into a consolized version of the Switch that could be used purely as a home console.
Seems to me like the kind of thing people hope to be able to do, just for the sake of it. I'd bet if someone made it happen, people would soon reflash the Switch OS back again.
I think a more interesting challenge would be if people can get the Switch OS and its games to run on a Nvidia Shield TV device. You could basically turn it into a consolized version of the Switch that could be used purely as a home console.
What would the whole of android take? For the most part it is the drivers you want and those, while maybe not being trivial to sort, are well within the realm of possibility ( https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/quake-iii-bounty-we-have-a-winner/ https://learn.adafruit.com/hacking-the-kinect ...).
As far as android goes there are thousands upon thousands of programs, many with multiple years of development, the ability to easily sell programs (there have been serious efforts at paid for homebrew on the GBA, yet most assume all homebrew is free), the ability to chain together programs* and generally have the things that come with a big boy OS.
*for network based file transfer I quite like rsync, and if not that then I can use FTP but it has to be some extremely specific settings owing to my security. Is the developer of... let's be hopeful and say a dreamcast VMU emulator gets ported to the switch**, would said emulator developer be willing to code in a rsync (or my specialist FTP requirements) server into their emulator because I like to have my server back up my savestates and game saves so I can play them on whatever machine I am on? Are they bollocks. Android on the other hand already has all that and I can set one as a service, and have my main server reach out and check hashes/date stamps and sync everything accordingly as soon as android appears with a network protocol (and the means to play the emulator) while the original emulator dev neither knows nor cares about what I am doing.
**look at the 3ds and compare it to the sorts of things we saw on the DS, GBA and PSP. Power wise it certainly could have beaten the DS and PSP, yet everybody still used injections as no emulator dev bothered to put as much time and expertise in (and I don't blame them at all) as we saw on the older devices. What has the switch really got that the 3ds did not, and baseline android with a bluetooth controller also does not today?
While the latter is compelling and I know for a fact that there's interest, the reason people are interested in the reverse is so that you could dual boot and have your Switch run as is, but also as effectively a portable version of the Shield TV as well if you reboot it and boot into that OS
I'll admit, maybe I'm only looking at this from my own POV. I have two Switch consoles, a pretty decent Android tablet, and also a Nvidia Shield TV. I guess if someone only had just the Switch device, they might want access to all the other things that Android provide. Where as I have a Android tablet and a Android phone. Having the Switch run Android would just turn it into another Android tablet. From my POV, there's nothing cool or exciting about that.
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