[Raspberry Pi Development] tjeulink:
I love tinkering with this project! Thank you so much for taking the time to do this great work :good: :highfive:

In my experience gapps is just not usable right now. i installed the yalp store (read disclaimer at end of paragraph) so i can still download and install every store app out there, it works much much better for the majority of the apps this way. It also very nicely shows if something requires google play services or if it has advertisements without the need to click on the app to see the details. i might try to install google play services to see if that changes anything in stability. Some apps that require it work semi okay without google play services, aliexpress for example has no problems launching without it, it crashed the whole system once though, can't recreate it so its hard to pin down. Netflix app does install but on launching redirects to their site for a different app (haven't tried that yet and probably won't, i don't have a netflix account anyways.). and the mi home app launches fine, but does so in portrait mode which i can't force into landscape sadly, so portrait only apps are really not that usable unless we find a way to flip the output/pointer-coordinates 90 degrees.

One major disclaimer though, its illegal to use yalp, it can get your google account deleted or something like that so don't link it to your google account just to be safe (legallity: https://www.google.com/mobile/android/market-tos.html §3.3 is why its illegal). But i would recommend people to just use fdroid store since it doesn't require gapps, and an apk extractor on your phone or android in a vm to download apps from the play store and extract and transfer them (which is legal i think)

A problem might be that some (if not most) apps don't show up in the default launcher (had this problem with fdroid which i tried to install first)., which is why i changed the default launcher to the emerald launcher which seems to work great. I was quite surprised that it managed my "throwing **** at it till it sticks" technique so well without crashing, the build without gapps seems pretty stable (except for a lot of rendering glitches/bugs) and usable. If you don't want to change the launcher you can open them via settings and then apps i believe, but i have tested this only once with fdroid (to download yalp).

One of the (for me major) problems im having is trying to run supersu since i really don't know where to start on getting that to run, im going to try and implement the binary's manually later to see if that works since OP said (if i remember correctly) that its already rooted. The reason i want to root is to install busybox, so i have more shell commands at my disposal to tweak the system. If anyone has documentation(man pages would be nice) about all the shell commands that are default in android that would be very much appreciated, i couldn't find anything so im really walking around blind googling every step of the way.

Also, i can't get into fastboot/recovery using adb reboot bootloader, it just reboots normaly from what i can see.

The graphical glitches are quite extensive, the screen is offcenter for me and i can't really fix it with "wm underscan L,T,R,B" since it doesn't allow for negatives (not the - i tried atleast). The screen borders also seem to fluctuate a lot, once i have every side lined up with underscan (except the one side bc offcenter) it can be thrown off again by opening another app. The underscan settings are kept but somehow the app changes the screen dimensions i think? this is via HDMI btw. I Don't think i can fix those issues with window manager in cli, thats why i would love some nice documentation about cli and supersu+busybox. Another graphical glitch im getting is right after the bootloader the screen is very distorted, as if there is a syncing issue (pal vs ntsc maybe? couldn't find how to change that, any advice is welcome), it solves itself though after a minute or so. And the cursor gets distorted when it goes over text fields, the same kind of distortion i get right after the bootloader.

And a final thingy, I can't get the dropdown menu to work anymore. I don't have a rectangle at the top showing notifications or anything. I guess that is because its android tv and not tablet/phone android but i would love it if someone could help me get it to work.

All in all, great work! Thanks so much for this [MENTION=5471195]tabp0le[/MENTION]! If i can help test anything i would love to.