New here and thought this would be the place to ask questions since i have found plenty of usefull information from this site
Question: how hard is it to create a rom for the evo?
i was thinking if it were possible to take the application viewer from TouchWiz 3.0 and switch it with that of the basic android app viewer on the Sense that it would be pretty nice
Welcome to XDA!
While I cannot directly answer your question (I'm not an Android dev), I can point you to the Android section of Chef Central. Take your time reading up on how Android works, and once you have a good understanding of the general aspects, head on over to the Evo 4G forums for more specific development information.
OK ppl, I've decided to work designing themes for our X10's.
I've searching and reading how to do this. Got some experience (and good taste ) creating themes, as I created some in the past for SE phones (using tools like SE themes creator and Photoshop). Of course when is Android things change, so let's say Im new in this.
Im not a professional designer but I think I could create some good stuff. BTW, I've decided to make themes for xRecovery just like SEMPITERNAL does because I found that more suitable.
So, Im asking for the necessary tools for this, tutorials, advices, etc, and when the themes I create are ready I'd ask for help of some beta testers in newest build ROM versions 'cause I run .054 and I won't update for now.
Thanks
See the sticky at the top of the board.
if you're lost.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=834806
Thanks ppl, I'll read
it better be something special
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it better be something special
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As soon as I learn how to (and when I have time out of my job and my musician career...), I'll promise I'll do something good
NEWBIE...Im fairly new into the developing world, but I have a solid background in anything computer orrientated. I started with a droid x, rooted it, and have never looked back. I'm taking java classes and learning as much as I can about programming. Any helpfull advice for someone starting a career/lifelong hobby in this feild? Reading a lot of books and blogs, but any other resources would be greatly appreciated.
Thx to all the professional devs out there who make it a fun digital world to cusomize!!!!
http://goo.gl/xB9rK
Lets start by using the search function.
This question gets asked and answered several times per week...
Personally i would skip the books.
I started by an idea in my mind what i wanted my app to do and taught myself through tutorials, stackoverflow, irc and lots of google...
Start something small, maybe an app that plays a single mp3 file.
Now you think, how can i choose different ones -> make a file explorer.
And so on... kinda like reading wikipedia, you start with some topic but end up in another topic far away ;-).
Thats if you want to program apps... there are lots of types of devs.... apps, roms, themes, kernel...
Now don't say you want to learn everything .
Thanks & more
Thanks for being the first to reply! And also for the info. I've done a little programming, vb and java, but am more interested in the rom/kernal side of things. Seen the vid before! Awesome!
I tried searching the site for what I'm looking for but unsuccesfull, figured the best way to get forward in this site, and get specific info, was to post a thread in one of the only places I could. Reread the rules and newbie posts, and figured out the reasons but they dont bother meat all.
Guess I'm looking more of an answer to this question, from everyone who replies:
How did u get to where u are now? (be it app dev, device help, other software dev)
Again thx for the help! P.S. what software do u use to program? And which os is preferred, linux, windows, mac?
I'm learning linux as fast as I can and wouldn't mind help there either if its out there.
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I started with knowledge in C++,C,SystemC and some script languages from university + plus some knowledge about programming in general.
We had to use java in the university but i never properly learned it (just couldnt be bothered). I knew the ideas behind it and some concepts.
I actually only started learning java after i had written the exams (one which was about java but thank god didn't require actual working code in the exam ).
This was winter 2010.
So after i no longer had to learn it, i wanted to learn it and started out pretty basic.
Used google alot tried the basic tutorials, i.e. button doing something and so on.
After that got boring i was looking for an app with an actual purpose.
I made a voice recording app, did some bounty requests, wrote a control app for a modification from another xda member and some other stuff, cba to list it all now .
I use the android sdk + eclipse. Currently on windows 7, but that doesn't really matter. I've got a laptop with linux and a virtual machine with it too. It just that i also play video games for which windows is somewhat required and so i'm programming on it too. But it doesn't really matter. Eclipse and android sdk don't really differ on the OSs.
For compiling kernels, you might need linux, but maybe its possible under windows too... (cygwin)... don't really know ;-)
The thing is, you don't need to read 5 books, have 2 degrees in X to start.
Let's take custom ROMs.
No one actually builds those things from scratch.
90% of them are just other ROMs(custom or stock) that have been modified to some extend.
Download a ROM, unpack it, swap some files, change some scripts/configs, maybe recolor some things, add some extra apps, maybe a different kernel.
Repack it and XING you made a custom ROM.. now just flash it and see if it works, if it doesn't... well try again
Trial&Error...
You will get more knowledge about what you can change and what can be done with the time.
There is a custom ROM tutorial thread somewhere on xda, just search for it.
I'm going to write a little bit on my next app now
Hello everyone!
I'm very excited with an app called VoiceJam http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrmninKEkrU or Loopy 2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GgiV...F3C9F9F4AD9C79 however they're made for iOS, so it would be great to have such app for android So if you know any alike programs to VoiceJam or Loopy 2 for android that can record and play multiple layers at one time please let me know! Or how do you think, could you develop such app??
Thanks a mill! Have a nice day everyone
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Hey there,
I'd like to know if anyone out there tried to use the new Samsung tablet UI on other devices. If so, how did the experience go? I have a feeling that it wouldn't work if I just took the APK out of a system dump and pushed it to my device (like it wouldn't work for the stock launchers of most devices out there, their full functions are usually buried somewhat deep in the system, like on the framework or even deeper sh*t the manufacturer decides), but I think it's worth asking.
Plus, is there a specific forum for app/ports/whatever-like-this requests? I see there is this Q&A board and the apps board, plus device-specific app requests threads over various forums, but I really don't know where would an app request with no specific device in mind would go. If there is such forum already, I'd like to know (and have this thread moved there, if possible), because I couldn't find it easily.
Thanks in advance for any help in any of the matters.