AOSP on same computer as FreeBSD

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It seems that to use Android's AOSP for everything except Raspberry Pi, that it must be built from source. Raspberry has image builds for it. I wouldn't bring it up, except, that sometimes another OS is needed for programs which have requirements not met by FreeBSD. Unless you want to have a complicated Linux compatibility layer.

So, Raspberry Pi is the option for using AOSP (Android Operating System Project). While it can be built for 64 bit PC's, building it from source code seems like too much. It would have been nice to use a live USB to boot into AOSP.
 
Can anyone confirm whether or not Google Play Apps can run on AOSP? On FreeBSD 15.0, bhyve can emulate Arm64, so it would be nice to know if Play apps could run on FreeBSD this way. Or also on a dedicated ARM computer, as for the features FreeBSD lacks need a way to be run.
 
sidetone said:
Can anyone confirm whether or not Google Play Apps can run on AOSP?
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Waydroid iirc had something easy to import Play Store/etc. LineageOS is default-no Google apps and they need flashed separately. microG could also be integrated into ROMs instead of Google apps.

I built LineageOS from source and flashed a 3rd-party Google apps years ago; I'm thinking Google apps can run fine on AOSP but you need all the components (Play Store probably requires Google's main app that iirc requires separate apps for Google server connectivity; it adds up enough to have different Google app packages available like OpenGapps, Niko, and MindTheGapps :p) Iirc OpenGapps had a barebones package with just the essentials for Play Store.
 
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