So a while back I posted here about an experiment I'm doing. I was trying to get my HTPC (a PC currently running Lubuntu and Kodi) to boot Android x86, and once it did I was going to try and flash the Leanback Gapps from the Nexus Player CM release. Well at the time, it didn't work because Android 5.* for PC didn't have graphic drivers working so it would be painfully slow. Now however, they've integrated MESA (an open source driver graphics driver alternative), so I was able to give my idea a go, and...

Almost there!

I got it up and running and even got GAPPS installed! When I rebooted, I was greeted with the setup menu, however to my dismay - no Leanback Launcher (though I suspect it may have been due to the method I used to flash GAPPS, which is just copy over all the files), and also video playback currently doesn't work (which I understand is a problem with all builds at the moment), but the cast receiver works (and receives casts - just can't play them because of the video playback issue) and I'm betting that with a little tweaking (or perhaps precompiling the build with the leanback gapps already baked inside) I can get all the software features (including leanback launcher) to work! For now we just have to wait for Android 5.* to mature well enough to fix video playback, but the future is promising!

I'll keep you posted with whatever I manage to come up with in the future.