We’ve installed Android on a plethora of Raspberry Pis going back to the Raspberry Pi 3. Each time we made it work, but the process was arduous and often involved workarounds and hacks, so when we heard about Emteria, we had to give it a go. You see, Emteria is essentially a stripped-back version of Android 15. Nothing from Google is present in the image.
The OS image is free for evaluation use, with nag text at the bottom-right of the screen showing that this is an evaluation copy. A licence starts at €80 per month for up to 50 devices, a steep price for inquisitive makers.
Using Raspberry Pi Imager, we flashed the OS image to a blank 64GB microSD card, and inserted it into a Raspberry Pi 5. A few reboots later and we had an Android device ready for action.