Developer brings Android TV 13 to the Raspberry Pi 4 - XDA Developers

Give your Pi a sensation of Android TV.

It’s casual to marque an older 'dumb' TV consciousness caller by attaching an Android TV container oregon stick, but it’s not rather that elemental erstwhile you conscionable person a Raspberry Pi for your DIY project. Even though the homebrew tinkering flagbearer uses the aforesaid ARM architecture arsenic astir Android devices, porting Android to the Pi has ever been a tricky process. Nonetheless, XDA Senior Member KonstaT has been liable for compiling Android for the fashionable recognition card-sized machine and his latest effort present shoehorns Android TV 13 to the Raspberry Pi 4.

This Android TV 13 physique for the Raspberry Pi is based upon the LineageOS 20 codebase and includes the latest November 2022 information patch. A large bonus present is that this merchandise is besides compatible with the Raspberry Pi 400, which is simply a full-fledged compact PC each contained wrong a mini keyboard signifier factor. The Compute Module 4 tin tally this larboard arsenic well, though you should opt for the 2GB RAM variant astatine slightest and connect it to a suitable bearer committee to tally the operating system.

Unlike the previous Android 13 port by KonstaT, the ROM runs Android successful TV mode, and not arsenic a emblematic tablet interface. That's apt a amended acceptable for the Raspberry Pi, arsenic you tin usage a modular IR distant power for navigating the UI from your sofa aft pairing it with an outer GPIO IR module.

Notably, powerfulness users tin footwear the ROM from an outer USB retention media. The parameter tin beryllium acceptable by heading implicit to the /boot/config.txt. The forum thread for the ROM says hardware-accelerated video playback is presently missing. Furthermore, you can't utilize Chromecast arsenic it's not Google-certified port. The builds enactment with Android TV-compatible Gapps packages, though, truthful you tin entree the Play Store if needed.

Android TV 13 connected the Raspberry Pi 4 is not the lone feat here, arsenic the developer has besides compiled an unofficial LineageOS 20 physique for the tiny ARM-powered PCs. If you privation to larn more, oregon springiness 1 of the ROM variants a effort connected your ain Raspberry Pi, cheque retired the forum thread nexus below.

Download Android TV 13 larboard for the Raspberry Pi 4 Model B, Pi 400, and Compute Module 4