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Not tried that but I've heard it's even possible to build custom Android distros.

I know that there’s a very active matrix channel for Nix on ARM that is mostly dedicated to pinephone/smartphone projects, so I imagine there’s some android tooling there but I don’t think it’s “android” in the AOSP sense.

There is an AOSP/etc dist building on nix project called robotnix. It has little to do with nixOS on Arm, so it is rarely mentioned on that channel.

samueldr has been doing a lot of good work in that direction. See https://mobile.nixos.org/ and https://github.com/samueldr/

Just noting, using Nix it is also possible to build an actual real deal Android image using Robotnix:

- https://github.com/danielfullmer/robotnix/

This is different from a non-Android Linux on Mobile devices, which is what Mobile NixOS aims to achieve :).

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