Install Android TV On the Raspberry Pi 4 - Android 10 With HW Acceleration

Installing Android TV on Raspberry Pi 4: A Step-by-Step Guide

The first step in installing Android TV on your Raspberry Pi 4 is to download the necessary software. We will need WinRAR, Notepad++, and the Android image file. Make sure you have all the necessary tools downloaded before proceeding.

We will start by installing WinRAR, a file extractor that can help us extract the Android image file. To install WinRAR, simply follow the on-screen instructions to complete the installation process. Once installed, we can move on to the next step.

Next, we need to download the Android image file and extract it using WinRAR. The Android image file is 15 gigabytes in size and needs to be extracted to a folder. Make sure you have enough free space on your desktop or any other drive where you plan to save the extracted files.

Now that we have the Android image file extracted, we can move on to flashing it onto our Raspberry Pi 4's microSD card using ETCER. First, launch ETCER and select "Flash from File" as the option. Then, locate the extracted Android image file and select your target device, which is your microSD card.

Before proceeding with the flash process, make sure you have a few settings changed in the config.txt file on the SD card. These settings are necessary to get HDMI and overscan working correctly on your Raspberry Pi 4. To do this, open Notepad++ and navigate to the SD card's "config.txt" file.

In this file, we need to add some specific lines of code to enable HDMI support and disable underscan. We can also overclock our CPU and GPU to improve performance. Add the following line to the end of the config.txt file: `hdmi_ignore_edid=1` and `disable_underscan=1`. Save the changes and close Notepad++.

Now that we have made the necessary changes, we can move on to installing Android TV on our Raspberry Pi 4. First, remove the SD card from your PC and insert it into the Raspberry Pi 4's microSD card slot. Connect all the necessary peripherals such as a keyboard, monitor, and single speaker.

Plug in the power cord and let the Raspberry Pi 4 boot up. You should see the Android logo appear on your screen. Use the arrow keys to navigate the interface and press Enter to access the app you want to launch. Go to Settings > Device Preferences and select your language. For this example, we will use English (United States).

Next, connect to a network using the Raspberry Pi 4's built-in Wi-Fi or Ethernet port. You can also use a USB dongle for wireless connectivity.

Once connected to the internet, you can start using Android TV on your Raspberry Pi 4. There are some pre-installed apps such as Retro Arch, PPSSPP, F-Droid, and Firefox that come with the operating system. However, Google Play has an issue at this time, so it's recommended to use a third-party app store like Aptoide or another market.

Keep in mind that Android TV on Raspberry Pi 4 is still in beta, which means you may encounter some issues during setup. Check back regularly for updates and bug fixes on the Lemon Crest website. If you have any questions or need further assistance, feel free to leave a comment below.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhey what's going on everybody it's eta prime back here again today i'm going to show you how to easily install android 10 tv on your raspberry pi 4. now keep in mind this is in beta you will run into a few issues here and there overall the main issues that i've had is sound isn't working over hdmi and the built-in google play store isn't working but i've sideloaded separate markets like aptoide and i can install apps from there but the best thing about this build of android 10 for the raspberry pi 4 is we have hardware acceleration or gpu acceleration as you can see here in ida 64. so performance here is actually really good for an android build on the raspberry pi i recently posted a video showing off some performance so definitely check that out but if you're interested in installing this let's go ahead and get started we're going to be installing this to a microsd card using a windows pc but this will work on other operating systems as well okay so let's go ahead and get this version of android installed to our sd card for a raspberry pi 4. before we get started i do want to mention that all links in this video will be in the description along with a kind of a little text file here this is going to disable overscan for us and we can also overclock our pi 4 while we're running android now obviously i'm using windows 10 here but this will also work with mac or linux the first thing we need to do is head over to lemoncrest and grab the image we can download it right here like i said all links will be in the description next thing we'll need to download is an application to allow us to flash that image to an sd card i recommend etcher and this works with mac linux or windows i'm going to go with the windows portable version i would recommend downloading winrar if you don't have any extraction software installed on your pc i'm going with the 64-bit version and the last thing we're going to need here is notepad plus plus because we don't want to edit anything on our microsd card with the built-in notepad editor because there's a chance you could corrupt it and i recommend using notepad plus plus as soon as everything's finished downloading here i'm going to place it all on my desktop for easy access okay so we have everything downloaded let's go ahead and install winrar first really easy to do give you a quick walk-through winrar is now installed we're going to go ahead and install notepad plus plus i definitely recommend using this you can try the built-in notepad if you want to but there's a chance you could corrupt the sd card and finally we need to extract the android image that we just downloaded so we've installed winrar right click extract it's going to extract to a folder here just give it some time to finish up so we now have the android image extracted we're just going to take a look in here it's a disk image file and it's 15 gigabytes now it's time to flash the image so we're going to go ahead and launch etcher from within etcher we're going to choose flash from file we're going to locate the android image that we just extracted disk image file we're going to select our target this is going to be our micro sd card make sure you choose your sd card and finally choose flash now this is going to take a little while just give it some time to finish up we're actually almost done here but there's a few little settings that we need to change in the config file on the sd card once it's finished okay so when etcher is finished flashing the sd card we're going to close etcher down and usually what i do is just pull my sd card out of my pc real quick and put it right back in we're now going to locate that sd card and there's a couple partitions on here but mine is actually listed as usb drive g and when you see a config.txt inside of one of these drives here you know you're in the right place so we're going to right click on the config.txt and edit with notepad plus plus i'm going to snap this over to the right hand side and i'm just going to open up my little text document here now in order to get hdmi and overscan working correctly we will need this hdmi ignore edid and disable underscore over scan equals one so we're going to copy come over to notepad plus plus i go down a few lines and i'm going to paste this right in here and if you'd like to overclock i also have that option here but remember you will need sufficient cooling for your raspberry pi we're going to go to 2 gigahertz on the cpu and 700 megahertz on the gpu so we're going to copy this paste it right in here file save and we're going to close notepad plus plus down and we're now done we can actually remove our sd card from our pc move over to our raspberry pi plug everything in and boot it up for the first time okay so i have everything set up on my raspberry pi 4 i've got my monitor connected keyboard connected and i'm also using a single speaker because like i mentioned at the beginning hdmi sound isn't working i'm going to put my freshly flashed sd card in my pi plug in the power and just let it boot once you see the android logo you know everything's going fine i'm going to grab my keyboard here so i can navigate the operating system we do need to change the language if you don't want it to be in spanish and it's pretty easy to do you're just going to use the arrow keys on your keyboard to navigate the interface here press enter to access the app you want to launch and we're going to go down here to settings and it doesn't say settings right now but trust me this is your settings option we're going to go all the way down to the very bottom which is device preferences and the third option is going to be our language find your language i'm going with english united states make sure it's selected press escape to go back and now you should be able to read everything in your native language so i'm going to go to my network and just connect to one of my networks here and now you can just start using android on your raspberry pi 4. there are some pre-installed apps like retro arch ppsspp f droid and firefox like i mentioned at the beginning google play has an issue right now so i would recommend opening up firefox and downloading aptoide or another app market and that's pretty much it for this video i really appreciate you watching i hope you get android tv up and running on your raspberry pi 4. keep in mind this is in beta you will run into issues but keep checking back on the lemon crest website for updates if you have any questions let me know in the comments below and like always thanks for watchinghey what's going on everybody it's eta prime back here again today i'm going to show you how to easily install android 10 tv on your raspberry pi 4. now keep in mind this is in beta you will run into a few issues here and there overall the main issues that i've had is sound isn't working over hdmi and the built-in google play store isn't working but i've sideloaded separate markets like aptoide and i can install apps from there but the best thing about this build of android 10 for the raspberry pi 4 is we have hardware acceleration or gpu acceleration as you can see here in ida 64. so performance here is actually really good for an android build on the raspberry pi i recently posted a video showing off some performance so definitely check that out but if you're interested in installing this let's go ahead and get started we're going to be installing this to a microsd card using a windows pc but this will work on other operating systems as well okay so let's go ahead and get this version of android installed to our sd card for a raspberry pi 4. before we get started i do want to mention that all links in this video will be in the description along with a kind of a little text file here this is going to disable overscan for us and we can also overclock our pi 4 while we're running android now obviously i'm using windows 10 here but this will also work with mac or linux the first thing we need to do is head over to lemoncrest and grab the image we can download it right here like i said all links will be in the description next thing we'll need to download is an application to allow us to flash that image to an sd card i recommend etcher and this works with mac linux or windows i'm going to go with the windows portable version i would recommend downloading winrar if you don't have any extraction software installed on your pc i'm going with the 64-bit version and the last thing we're going to need here is notepad plus plus because we don't want to edit anything on our microsd card with the built-in notepad editor because there's a chance you could corrupt it and i recommend using notepad plus plus as soon as everything's finished downloading here i'm going to place it all on my desktop for easy access okay so we have everything downloaded let's go ahead and install winrar first really easy to do give you a quick walk-through winrar is now installed we're going to go ahead and install notepad plus plus i definitely recommend using this you can try the built-in notepad if you want to but there's a chance you could corrupt the sd card and finally we need to extract the android image that we just downloaded so we've installed winrar right click extract it's going to extract to a folder here just give it some time to finish up so we now have the android image extracted we're just going to take a look in here it's a disk image file and it's 15 gigabytes now it's time to flash the image so we're going to go ahead and launch etcher from within etcher we're going to choose flash from file we're going to locate the android image that we just extracted disk image file we're going to select our target this is going to be our micro sd card make sure you choose your sd card and finally choose flash now this is going to take a little while just give it some time to finish up we're actually almost done here but there's a few little settings that we need to change in the config file on the sd card once it's finished okay so when etcher is finished flashing the sd card we're going to close etcher down and usually what i do is just pull my sd card out of my pc real quick and put it right back in we're now going to locate that sd card and there's a couple partitions on here but mine is actually listed as usb drive g and when you see a config.txt inside of one of these drives here you know you're in the right place so we're going to right click on the config.txt and edit with notepad plus plus i'm going to snap this over to the right hand side and i'm just going to open up my little text document here now in order to get hdmi and overscan working correctly we will need this hdmi ignore edid and disable underscore over scan equals one so we're going to copy come over to notepad plus plus i go down a few lines and i'm going to paste this right in here and if you'd like to overclock i also have that option here but remember you will need sufficient cooling for your raspberry pi we're going to go to 2 gigahertz on the cpu and 700 megahertz on the gpu so we're going to copy this paste it right in here file save and we're going to close notepad plus plus down and we're now done we can actually remove our sd card from our pc move over to our raspberry pi plug everything in and boot it up for the first time okay so i have everything set up on my raspberry pi 4 i've got my monitor connected keyboard connected and i'm also using a single speaker because like i mentioned at the beginning hdmi sound isn't working i'm going to put my freshly flashed sd card in my pi plug in the power and just let it boot once you see the android logo you know everything's going fine i'm going to grab my keyboard here so i can navigate the operating system we do need to change the language if you don't want it to be in spanish and it's pretty easy to do you're just going to use the arrow keys on your keyboard to navigate the interface here press enter to access the app you want to launch and we're going to go down here to settings and it doesn't say settings right now but trust me this is your settings option we're going to go all the way down to the very bottom which is device preferences and the third option is going to be our language find your language i'm going with english united states make sure it's selected press escape to go back and now you should be able to read everything in your native language so i'm going to go to my network and just connect to one of my networks here and now you can just start using android on your raspberry pi 4. there are some pre-installed apps like retro arch ppsspp f droid and firefox like i mentioned at the beginning google play has an issue right now so i would recommend opening up firefox and downloading aptoide or another app market and that's pretty much it for this video i really appreciate you watching i hope you get android tv up and running on your raspberry pi 4. keep in mind this is in beta you will run into issues but keep checking back on the lemon crest website for updates if you have any questions let me know in the comments below and like always thanks for watching\n"