
In the last ten years, Android has monopolized a large part of mobile devices. However, this operating system has not been able to expand into the area of conventional computing devices despite the efforts made by multinational development teams such as Android X86. This is largely due to the difference between the desktop metaphor used in the most popular environments, such as Windows, macOS, and the different GNU/Linux work environments and the information architecture proposed and optimized for Android mobile devices.
The lecture "Android as an operating system for desktop computers" addresses the advantages of the use of Android in conventional computer equipment, the main problems to be solved to achieve this goal, as well as the different efforts of international projects to bring this operating system closer to the desktop metaphor.
*MSc. Juan Manuel Fuentes Rodríguez: He works as Head of the Operating Systems Department at the Free Software Center of the University of Computer Science with 6 years of experience in Higher Education.
Current Leader of the Development Team of the Cuban GNU/Linux Distribution Nova.
He worked as a teacher in different editions of the International Winter and Summer School that are held at the University of Computer Science.