{"id":82217,"date":"2019-02-13T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-13T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/02\/rumour_switch_seen_running_android_in_the_wild"},"modified":"2019-02-13T18:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-02-13T18:00:00","slug":"rumour-switch-seen-running-android-in-the-wild","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/02\/13\/rumour-switch-seen-running-android-in-the-wild\/","title":{"rendered":"Rumour: Switch Seen Running Android In The Wild"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/4fddabd8967ce\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/4fddabd8967ce\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><a title=\"FF828748 B537 4C76 841A 8EA3C23763C7\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/4fddabd8967ce\/ff828748-b537-4c76-841a-8ea3c23763c7.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/4fddabd8967ce\/ff828748-b537-4c76-841a-8ea3c23763c7.900x.jpg\" alt=\"FF828748 B537 4C76 841A 8EA3C23763C7\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>The Switch is certainly a versatile little system with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/03\/gamemaker_studio_2_comes_to_nintendo_switch\">a host of engines<\/a> having added support for the \u2018homeheld\u2019 since launch nearly two years ago. In addition to all the official tweak-ery, unofficial platforms have also been seen running on the console \u2018in the wild\u2019 \u2013 we\u2019ve seen <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/02\/hackers_turn_the_nintendo_switch_into_a_functioning_linux_tablet\">photos of Linux running in a rudimentary form<\/a>, and hackers are always poking away at Switch\u2019s vulnerable spots.<\/p>\n<p>Now it seems that the hacking community may have made another breakthrough. Twitter user <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/natinusala\/status\/1095404853407428609\">@natinusala<\/a> shared a photo last night of a Switch displaying a familiar logo:<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-tweet\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p><span lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Not my work but worth sharing <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/XKctcJSZoo\">pic.twitter.com\/XKctcJSZoo<\/a><\/span>\u2014 natinusala_ctx_t (@natinusala) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/natinusala\/status\/1095404853407428609?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 12, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<p>The photo alone is hardly proof, but a gitlab.com link in a following tweet points towards the work that supposedly gets Android up and running on Nintendo&#8217;s console (in a very unoffical capacity, we hasten to add). Of course, simply having the OS boot doesn\u2019t necessarily mean it\u2019s in a fit state, but it\u2019s interesting to see, nonetheless. <a href=\"https:\/\/venturebeat.com\/2017\/03\/21\/android-software-company-cyanogen-reportedly-shot-down-working-on-a-nintendo-os\/\">Reports around the launch of the console<\/a> suggested that Nintendo was originally interested in a modified Android operating system for their console before taking a custom route.<\/p>\n<p>Android support in an official capacity would open avenues to all sorts of games on the console &#8211; Nintendo\u2019s growing mobile catalogue included &#8211; so these <em>unofficial<\/em> steps are intriguing. Before the console\u2019s launch, you can imagine Nintendo being very eager to get as much software as possible on the platform, but with Switch recently celebrating <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/02\/more_than_1800_games_have_now_been_released_on_the_nintendo_switch\">1800 games on the eShop<\/a>, Android support probably isn\u2019t top of Nintendo\u2019s to-do list.<\/p>\n<p><em>Intrigued? What OS would you like to see running on Switch, off the record, on the QT, and very hush-hush? It&#8217;s Windows 98, isn&#8217;t it &#8211; love that Solitare. Let us know in the comments!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Switch is certainly a versatile little system with a host of engines having added support for the \u2018homeheld\u2019 since launch nearly two years ago. In addition to all the official tweak-ery, unofficial platforms have also been seen running on the console \u2018in the wild\u2019 \u2013 we\u2019ve seen photos of Linux running in a rudimentary [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82217\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}