How to Install LiveAndroid V03

Android is a popular operating system for mobile phones.

Google's free Android operating system for mobile devices faces stiff competition from other platforms such as Apple's iOS and Microsoft's Windows Phone. To gain a competitive edge, Google tries to make it as painless as possible for software developers to create and test Android applications. One way that you can test Android applications is by running the operating system on your computer. Google has released a LiveCD version of Android that you can download, burn and install without modifying your computer. Download Live-Android v0.3 to test Android applications or to get an idea of how Android devices operate.

Things You'll Need

• Blank recordable CD

Instructions

1. Navigate in your Web browser to the Live-Android website at code.google.com/p/live-android/. Click the "Show All" link under the "Downloads" heading on the left side of the page.

2. Click the "liveandroidv0.3 [mininova].torrent" link to download Live-Android 3 using a BitTorrent client, or click the "liveandroidv0.3.iso.001" and "liveandroidv0.3.iso.002" links to download a split version of the liveCD image directly from Google.

3. Download and install HJ-Split if you downloaded the split version of the Live-Android LiveCD image instead of using a BitTorrent client. Launch HJ-Split, click the "Join" button and double-click the file "liveandroidv0.3.iso.001" to reconstruct the file "liveandroidv0.3.iso" from the two parts.

4. Burn the file "liveandroidv0.3.iso" on a recordable CD. In Windows 7, you can do this by double-clicking the file and clicking "Burn."

5. Insert the finished Live-Android CD in the optical drive of the computer you want to use Android on and restart the computer. A gray screen titled "Live-Android v0.3" appears.

6. Use the keyboard arrow keys to highlight "live-android (800*600)" or "live-android (1024*768)." Select the item that most closely matches the resolution of the computer's screen. Press "Enter." The Live-Android desktop loads.

Tips & Warnings

• Live-Android is designed to run from a CD or memory stick. You cannot save it permanently to your computer's hard drive. Therefore, you can test it without fear that you will modify or damage a computer's contents.

References

• Microsoft Windows: Burn a CD or DVD from an ISO File

Resources

• Live-Android: A LiveCD for Android
• HJ-Split: Freeware Multi-platform File Splitters