You can now run Android on a Nintendo Switch..Unofficially, of course

Yes is true, you can run Android on a Nintendo Switch giving you access to Netflix, YouTube, Spotify, Twitch and a hole lot of Android Apps and games of course.

How it was done… An unofficial port of LineageOS 15.1 based on Nvidia’s own builds for the Nvidia Shield TV Box was made for the Switch meaning you can play Nvidia exclusives like Portal and Half-Life 2.

That’s right: six years after Nvidia tried to ape Nintendo by releasing a handheld Android game console, you can now load Android onto Nintendo’s own Nvidia-based portable.

Not everything works flawlessly, according to XDA-developers, whose members contributed to the port and whose writers have been documenting it over the past month. While the Joy-Con controllers work natively, you can dock the Switch, and even connect a Bluetooth headset — something Nintendo still doesn’t support! — XDA reports that joysticks aren’t being detected correctly in apps like Dolphin Emulator or the Steam Link game streaming app, the two biggest reasons I’d want Android on this platform.

You’ll also need a Switch console that is able to run the Hekate bootloader, something that might not be possible if you’ve purchased one of the updated consoles after June 2018.

On the plus side, if you can get it working, XDA reports that it won’t replace your Nintendo software and games — as long as you’ve got a spare SD card that’s big enough, you could theoretically swap between Android and the stock Nintendo OS whenever you like.