Installing Android TV 7.1 on Raspberry Pi 3

[Cameron Clough]

Hello,

I am trying to install Android TV 7.1 to my Raspberry Pi 3 and so far have installed this image to an SD card and booted the Pi. However, when it boots the screen is "torn" and stretched meaning I cannot read the dialog which seems to have appeared. I clicked enter twice and eventually the home screen appears, but any time the picture changes the screen flashes as the updates are made. It is not a good experience.

How can I fix this?

Furthermore, I tried to install GAPPS using an installer script from RTAndroid, however I did not have success running this from macOS. I was able to install wget and the android adb tools, but the problem occurred when the script appeared to begin copying every file on my system to the pi... It quickly ran out of space. Could someone direct me to a script which would work on macOS?

Thanks in advance.

[alons...@gmail.com]

I can't really help you in regards to the video driver issues you're experiencing as I don't have that much knowledge on the matter.

But from what I've learned the past couple of days trying to install ATV with marshmallow source on my Pi3 is that the disc image partitions the SD with default sizes. You need a good disk/partition tool like gparted on ubuntu to see ext4 partitions and resize them to a size that would suit your needs and capacity of the SD.

After that you can run the script again and install gapps without space errors.

Finally you should strongly consider using a Linux distro to flash and adb into your pi as it makes the process a whole lot smoother.

Hope this helps

[marin....@gmail.com]

witch iso do you use for installing your android tv rpi3 ?

[Cameron Clough]

I managed to fix my problems using the Android TV version here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Khs5WBXWTgA