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Android is now the "fashion" of the day, after selling a cell phone, that it intends to market the second, after trying to install it on a Freerunner, here in the internet community has anyone tried to install it on a PC and also precisely on an Asus EeePC 701!
The instructions I have found are not foolproof, of course, and the installation will erase all your data then hd a backup!
Ingredients:
1 eeepc
1 Operating System Ubuntu
1 Internet connection
1 mug of coffee
Procedure:

Open a terminal and go to your home directory
$ cd ~

Prepare your environment:
$ sudo apt-get install flex bison gperf libsdl-dev libesd0-dev libwxgtk2.6-dev build-essential zip curl libncurses5-dev zlib1g-dev valgrind

Install the repo:
$ curl http://android.git.kernel.org/repo >~/bin/repo
$ chmod a+x ~/bin/repo

Create your working directory. We assume that the working directory is Android-eee:
$ mkdir android-eee

Go to the Android-eee
$ cd android-eee

Initialize the cupcake repo:
$ repo init -u git://android.git.kernel.org/platform/manifest.git

Create the file which will contain the repo local_manifest.xml about eee_701 in cupcake branch:
$ cd .repo
$ touch local_manifest.xml

Edit the file and copy the following text local_manifest.xml:
<? Xml version = "1.0" encoding = "UTF-8"?>
<manifest>
<project name="platform/vendor/asus/eee_701" path="vendor/asus/eee_701"/>
</ Manifest>

Save and exit.
Change directory back in your working direcory:
$ cd ~/android-eee

Synchronize the repo (may take a little '):
$ repo sync

Create the image file (This impegherà LONG time)
$ TARGET_ARCH=x86 TARGET_PRODUCT=eee_701 DISABLE_DEXPREOPT=true make -j4 installer_img

Installer_img put on a USB stick:
$ dd if=out/target/product/eee_701/installer.img of=/dev/ ; sync

Boot your eeepc from the usb stick and install it.
Note: at this time the file was created. Img failed due to a bug. We are waiting for approval of the fix.

But I state that:
1) I have never seen a live phone with Android
2) Android on Freerunner does not work properly, but it is an exercise in style.
3) Android Eee PC is a mere academic exercise (just to say: "And yet it works ...")
I think that Android is a great product, but still very immature!

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