How To Install Android 3.0 On Computer


If you are not have any Android device and see your friends talking about it and Android apps all the time, so how about installing it on your computer. Yes, I am serious. What say, if we help you to install Android 3.0 on Windows.

Now if some snob comes to you and says, “Hey, have you used Android 3.0 Honeycomb!”. Then you can throw your words right on his face, “Hell yeah! Honeycomb is Amazing. It is the best version of Android. I loved it.”

So, we would be guiding you with complete step by step guide to run Android 3.0 on Windows computer.

Guide To Install Android 3.0 On Computer

Before you sit and start with this installation of Android 3.0, you need to download below files:

We also need Android SDK on your computer. So depending on the OS you are working on, download the appropriate Android SDK you want.

Once you are ready with the SDK, you to install the required packages and some updates which would make it appropriate for Android 3.0. Navigate it into the Tools folder inside the SDK folder.

There, click on the Android application, which would direct you to a new window. Just click on the Installed Packages on the left panel of the menu. And the click on the Update All button located at the bottom of the screen.

Now this would take some time, so you can go ahead and grab a cookie meanwhile while it downloads all the required packages and updates.

Once all these updates and installation is done, its time to create AVD. Click on the Virtual devices and then go ahead and create AVD for your computer. While doing so, it would ask you to choose the Android version.

Since we are planing to run Andorid 3.0 on computer, choose the option labelled as Android 3.0. And also, give the SD card as 10,000 MB. Now it would take some while the whole installation process gets initiated and completes.

Now to run it, click on the Virtual Devices and choose the AVD that you have created and click on the Start button. And this simulator will start running Android 3.0 on your computer.

Yes, this experience is way degraded than the one you get while using it on touch screen display of tablet PCs. But this would surely serve to your curiosity of running Android 3.0 apps on computer.

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October 19, 2011 by: Prasanth Chandra

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