AOSP (Android 16)
for Raspberry Pi 5
June 17, 2025

Here’s my build of AOSP (Android 16) for Raspberry Pi 5, Pi 500, and Compute Module 5. It’s for advanced users only.

Important! Raspberry Pi hardware specific implementation in this build is based on source code released on my Raspberry Vanilla project but this build offers various additional features and enhancements. This image includes parts that are licensed under non-commercial license (Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International). You may use this build freely in personal/educational/etc use. Commercial use is not allowed with this build! You can contact me by email to discuss creating customized Android builds for commercial purposes.

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AOSP16-20250617-KonstaKANG-rpi5.zip
sha256:99a17f54d69f706ddd32bb0d07a94e20ef66e3edfe6117008b91cf107e456a4e

Note! It’s not possible to OTA update from builds older than 20250617. Clean installation is required!

AOSP16-20250617-KonstaKANG-rpi5-ota.zip (TWRP flashable OTA package)
sha256:2d9abc68cdd6700a98f365543a8c472ef9132b203b777d9ec51607ca97cc0507

Working:

Audio (HDMI, USB microphones, bluetooth speakers/headphones, etc)
Audio DAC (using GPIO DACs e.g. Hifiberry DAC+)
Bluetooth (and bluetooth tethering)
Camera (using official Pi camera modules & UVC USB webcams)
GPIO
GPS (using external USB modules e.g. U-Blox 7)
Ethernet
Hardware accelerated graphics (V3D, OpenGL & Vulkan)
Hardware video decoding (H.265 decoding)
HDMI display (and HDMI-CEC)
I2C
IR remotes (using external GPIO IR modules e.g. TSOP4838)
Power button
RTC
Sensors (using external GPIO I2C modules e.g. MPU6050, LSM6DS3, LSM303DLHC, BME280/BMP280, and APDS9930 accelerometer, gyroscope, magnetometer, temperature, pressure, humidity, ambient light, and proximity)
Serial console (using external GPIO serial console adapters e.g. PL2303)
SPI
Touchscreen/multi-touch (official 7” touchscreen, USB touchscreens, Waveshare SPI touchscreens)
USB (mouse, keyboard, storage, etc)
USB-C (ADB, MTP, PTP, USB tethering)
Wifi (and wifi tethering)
Issues:

Various issues with CSI camera modules
SELinux is in permissive mode
Encrypting userdata is not supported
and more…
Sources:

Android
Linux kernel