README.md

Android-x86 Installer

Cross-platform Android x86 installer desktop app built with Tauri.
The installer can function without root access. For safety, it was designed not to mess with the bootloader.
It re-uses the grub config and kernel command line parameters from the ISO.

Download for Linux and Windows: https://github.com/Xtr126/Android-x86-installer/releases/latest
Arch linux: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/android-x86-installer-tauri-bin

Development

• Tauri Prerequisites
• It might take a while to compile the rust dependencies.

git clone https://github.com/Xtr126/Android-x86-installer.git 
cd Android-x86-installer
pnpm install 
pnpm tauri dev

The installer also supports generating a script to boot the same physical Android install in qemu:

Open source libraries and projects used

• Tauri: https://github.com/tauri-apps/tauri/

User Interface

• Material Web: https://github.com/material-components/material-web/
• Lit: https://github.com/lit/lit/

ISO file handling

• compress-tools-rs: https://github.com/OSSystems/compress-tools-rs/
• libarchive: https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/

data.img creation

• e2fsprogs (mke2fs/mkfs.ext4)
• Cygwin - mkfs.ext4.exe for Windows