Gapps on Hikey/Hikey960

Hi,

Is there a way to install Gapps (e.g. from opengapps.org) into either a running Hikey board, or into Hikey AOSP tree before/during build, or into pre-built images?

I have used gapps from there earlier, but they install through TWRP. I couldn’t get TWRP to boot on hikey in fastboot mode using:

$ fastboot boot

I don’t have GMS license, and this in for local development, not distribution.

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I have tried extracting individual packages inside gapps, then copied them all into running system.
on reboot, system never comes up again, complains about a lot of missing libraries etc.

I tried copying some specific packages only, now system boots, I gave all packages all permissions manually. Still google app crashes immediately.

I don’t have a clean working method of installing gapps into Hikey. Any help is appreciated.

Bump. I have the same problem.
I was trying booting a twrp recovery onto a hk96 but it seems the booting sequence for it is different and the attempt ended with

> fastboot boot /home/foo/Downloads/twrp-3.2.3-r1-athene-arm64_rajatgupta1998.img
Sending 'boot.img' (15658 KB)                      OKAY [  0.485s]
Booting                                            FAILED (remote: 'invalid command')
fastboot: error: Command failed

I will attempt to flash boot partition changing the parameters at some point, but currently the only viable solution for my current project is building open gapps along with my project which seems isn’t something that requires some additional dark knowledge :wink:

To be honest I missed this thread or I would probably have closed it down! GApps are separately licensed by Google and we do not provide support to people seeking to install them.