Includes Aptoide TV, SnapTube, and Termux

May 22, 2017 22:15 GMT  ·  By

Arne Exton has informed Softpedia about the availability of a new maintenance update to his RaspAnd operating system based on the latest Android 7.1 Nougat mobile OS and designed for Raspberry Pi 3 and 2 SBCs.

RaspAnd Nougat 7.1.2 Build 170519 is now the latest stable release of the project, based on the Android 7.1.2 Nougat operating system and targeted at users of Raspberry Pi 3 and Raspberry Pi 2 single-board computers that want to use Google's Android OS on their SBCs and enjoy some of the best apps.

This new RaspAnd build is full of goodies, and brings you the latest Kodi 17.1 media center, Mozilla Firefox 53.0.2 web browser, Spotify 8.4.3.479 client, Rotation Control Pro 1.1.9, Aptoide TV 3.2.1 package manager, ES File Explorer Pro 1.0.8 file manager, AIDA64 1.46 benchmarking tool, and Termux 0.48 terminal emulator.

Powered by the long-term supported Linux 4.4 kernel series

The SnapTube 4.17.0.8739 application is installed as well in RaspAnd Nougat 7.1.2 Build 170519, but it doesn't offer video, only sound. "However, Arne Exton tells us that it is possible to use SnapTube to download videos from YouTube and replay them whenever you want while enjoying the best available video quality.

"Version 7.1.2 is the latest Android system by now. Released on April 8, 2017. The system is used in very few mobile phones (as far as I know)," said Arne Exton. "Kodi works very well in RaspAnd. You can enable a lot of Add-ons. Most important is that the YouTube Add-on is enabled by default and that it works very well."

Under the hood, we can't help but notice that RaspAnd Nougat 7.1.2 Build 170516 is using the Linux 4.4.35-exton-v7+ kernel compiled by Arne Exton himself. As usual, existing users running RaspAnd Nougat 7.1.1 or a previous build can freely update to the new release. The rest of the world needs to buy RaspAnd Nougat 7.1.2 Build 170519 for the sum of $9 from the developer's website.

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Kodi running
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Spotify running
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SnapTube running

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