Android is a great OS, and flashing new roms is one of the best experiences when it comes to your device
I know how to root, flash roms, kernels, and radios, but I want to know more. I'd like to get into rom development, mainly from source code.
I do have experience with computer languages. I can build a nice website in Notepad using HTML. JavaScript is no problem either. I also dabbled in CSS.
What exactly should I know to eventually know the ins and outs of rom development? What languages, PC environments, etc?
KayxGee1 said:
Android is a great OS, and flashing new roms is one of the best experiences when it comes to your device
I know how to root, flash roms, kernels, and radios, but I want to know more. I'd like to get into rom development, mainly from source code.
I do have experience with computer languages. I can build a nice website in Notepad using HTML. JavaScript is no problem either. I also dabbled in CSS.
What exactly should I know to eventually know the ins and outs of rom development? What languages, PC environments, etc?
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You will need a Linux distro to build rom source and most of it is in Java C+ and C++
Or u can just use dsixda's online kitchen. It the UOT kitchen
QuantumFoam said:
Or u can just use dsixda's online kitchen. It the UOT kitchen
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He asked about learning Tom development and those are not even close
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zelendel said:
He asked about learning Tom development and those are not even close
Sent for a corner cell in Arkham
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Yes. But he didn't ask about making a rom from source. He could take an existing rom, modify the ui and release it as his own version :
Oh well. Who am I to contradict a senior mod
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Yes. But he didn't ask about making a rom from source. He could take an existing rom, modify the ui and release it as his own version :
Oh well. Who am I to contradict a senior mod
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No he didn't but what you described is coming to an end very soon.
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zelendel said:
No he didn't but what you described is coming to an end very soon.
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Really? The ROM kitchens are closing?
QuantumFoam said:
Really? The ROM kitchens are closing?
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No but posting roms done this way will be. Remember this is a development site. Focusing on real development
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zelendel said:
No but posting roms done this way will be. Remember this is a development site. Focusing on real development
Sent for a corner cell in Arkham
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Well you're right.
I hope op got his answer
Hey, so the best way is to jump right into development. Go and download the official AOSP tree. This side will guide you:
http:
//source.android.com/source/downloading.html
So you need to be able to handle a linux machine, should know about java and c/c++, git and repo. Do not get frustrated it is really a lot of stuff that you will need on your way. But it is worth it.
I recommend that you start with stock AOSP as this is staight forward and should build stable. A google development device is a must have to verify your roms as those are official supported and as newbie you really do not want to start hacking/porting/steeling/manipulating device drivers to get things working .
If you passed this hurdles you can start to modify small parts of the system an so on...
Good luck and have fun
Much appreciation. Thanks have been given.
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As the title says, i'm a noob.
I wanna make a such Custom ROM for my Xperia Active since... i tried GingerDX on my X8, i really wanted it to be on the newer Xperia's... so i was thinking of using something called CyanongenMod for this project...
Idk wat im gonna call this project but maybe Xperiabreak (Reference to Jailbreak)?
And i really wanna have permission to do this... even i don't a know a single chocolate balls.
So.. this is the question, how do i make a custom rom?
It involves a series of certain things, most importantly, an understanding of how android works and performs, you need an understanding of linux...computer programming languages like c++\c+ and Java
Than you have to learn how to build from source code ie..froyo, ICS, or even cyanogenmod...
There are serious developers who build from source than just noobs who take the work of someone else, throw a few scripts in, and call it making a new rom, but that is simply cooking a rom with uot kitchen...
Google is your friend, use your resources, learn about the inner workings of android, learn a language and start developing. Its all a trail and error process
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It involves a series of certain things, most importantly, an understanding of how android works and performs, you need an understanding of linux...computer programming languages like c++\c+ and Java
Than you have to learn how to build from source code ie..froyo, ICS, or even cyanogenmod...
There are serious developers who build from source than just noobs who take the work of someone else, throw a few scripts in, and call it making a new rom, but that is simply cooking a rom with uot kitchen...
Google is your friend, use your resources, learn about the inner workings of android, learn a language and start developing. Its all a trail and error process
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OK, for the first: I know Linux, I've been using it too and i know it's commands..
for the second: ICS maybe or CyanogenMod... Mostly CM.
for the third: I gonna try build and compile it from source...
Since Galnet MIUI has been banned from XDA because of 'rule violations' will there be another site where someone will post it like rootzwiki or something? or should i got back to original MIUI?
Just go to the Galnet website.
they have to be ported to the infuse, man this sucks.
if you want to make an impact, sign up on Galnet. Try and get them to support the infuse. Sorry guys.... I tried to help out thanks for supporting me and my efforts.
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if you want to make an impact, sign up on Galnet. Try and get them to support the infuse. Sorry guys.... I tried to help out thanks for supporting me and my efforts.
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thank you so much for all your work, if anything can you please keep the work going on the original MIUI so we atleast have something? Again thanks for trying!
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they have to be ported to the infuse, man this sucks.
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yeah it sucks, i loved using it!
Great work bro...sorry bout this..
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Great work bro...sorry bout this..
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Thanks man. Its up to u now to keep popping out these sick Rom's!
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anyone know what "rules" does the galnet rom violet? just curious.
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thank you so much for all your work, if anything can you please keep the work going on the original MIUI so we atleast have something? Again thanks for trying!
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Yea I will until it gets banned... its MIUI that is the issue. They won't release their source. Which violates BS.
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It means that the android kernel is protected by GPL laws. Which means the source code has to be made available. MIUI breaks these laws and refuses to post the source. So all MIUI roms have to have a custom kernel not made by the MIUI team.
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Weird, I didn't know kernels were covered by GPL laws. I learn something new every day.
Are there any other kernels that will work?
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Weird, I didn't know kernels were covered by GPL laws. I learn something new every day.
Are there any other kernels that will work?
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yes all kernels need to have their source code released
for example remember the HP touchpads that shipped with android well they didn't release their source code to the kernel on this devices so they are in violation of the GPL and can be sued and i believe they are being sued now.
Also no other kernel will work with MIUI only the kernel they built
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ZELENDEL said this in another post....
It means that the android kernel is protected by GPL laws. Which means the source code has to be made available. MIUI breaks these laws and refuses to post the source. So all MIUI roms have to have a custom kernel not made by the MIUI team.
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MIUI should really release the source it's not that hard and will make everyones life easy because i hate CM well not hate but its not my favorite.
Well maybe i can try one of dan's ROM they are always good
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ZELENDEL said this in another post....
It means that the android kernel is protected by GPL laws. Which means the source code has to be made available. MIUI breaks these laws and refuses to post the source. So all MIUI roms have to have a custom kernel not made by the MIUI team.
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Considering that the source for the kernel that is used in your MIUI build is actually available, perhaps you can get the thread re-opened. Just sayin. Doesn't make sense to close a thread because the original kernel isn't open sourced, and you clearly link to the source of the kernel in your thread.
I'm confused...just earlier today, there was a link in the Galnet thread to the source of the custom kernel posted with the ROM. Actually, boostnsubaru pointed it out to me and I looked through it when trying to narrow down some weird CPU governor behavior. Now that the thread is closed, the link to the kernel source is gone.
Okay that sucks and I just flashed MIUI 1.11.9 to my infuse!
If there are some parts of the MIUI rom that has been made independent from the Android OS, then those parts who's source is not released under the GPL must be distributed separately, as per section 2 of the GPLv2.
I have looked all over and it I cannot find any of the source for this ROM. This is in clear violation of the license in witch Android is released.
There could be something MIUI is trying to hide as there have been theories about data stealing before, i would say MIUI is violating GPL and should fix this and if they don't then they are trying to hide something
GPLv2
2. You may modify your copy or copies of the Program or any portion of it, thus forming a work based on the Program, and copy and distribute such modifications or work under the terms of Section 1 above, provided that you also meet all of these conditions:
a) You must cause the modified files to carry prominent notices stating that you changed the files and the date of any change.
b) You must cause any work that you distribute or publish, that in whole or in part contains or is derived from the Program or any part thereof, to be licensed as a whole at no charge to all third parties under the terms of this License.
c) If the modified program normally reads commands interactively when run, you must cause it, when started running for such interactive use in the most ordinary way, to print or display an announcement including an appropriate copyright notice and a notice that there is no warranty (or else, saying that you provide a warranty) and that users may redistribute the program under these conditions, and telling the user how to view a copy of this License. (Exception: if the Program itself is interactive but does not normally print such an announcement, your work based on the Program is not required to print an announcement.)
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so basically they need to release changes they made to the ROM and then it will be out of violation
But I thought only the kernel was under GPL? Isn't Android under the Apache license?
Hi,
Is the above possible? I found some guides for CYM but none for our phone...
any advice would be highly appreciated
10x
Alon
They aren't finished building cm for our phones yet... They are working on it though. Add for
an emulator, I asked that question a long time ago and I was told since there are so many Android devices and each one is different it would be useless for the manufacturer to build an emulator... The only way we could have one for our phone is to build it ourselves... Which would required a butt load of time and knowledge of many different things like Java, Linux, kernel building, scripting, etc...
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They aren't finished building cm for our phones yet... They are working on it though. Add for
an emulator, I asked that question a long time ago and I was told since there are so many Android devices and each one is different it would be useless for the manufacturer to build an emulator... The only way we could have one for our phone is to build it ourselves... Which would required a butt load of time and knowledge of many different things like Java, Linux, kernel building, scripting, etc...
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so currently there is no way we can test our ROMs on emulator?
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so currently there is no way we can test our ROMs on emulator?
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Well you can try to build the samsung sources against the aosp source code. The AOSP source code comes with the android emulator pre-compiled so you can test out your roms.
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Well you can try to build the samsung sources against the aosp source code. The AOSP source code comes with the android emulator pre-compiled so you can test out your roms.
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can you please elaborate on this one?I'm not sure I followed
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can you please elaborate on this one?I'm not sure I followed
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http://source.android.com/source/building.html
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http://source.android.com/source/building.html
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OK...I'll see what I can understand from that
10x
Hi guys im new to XDA but not new to Android development i used to have Cricket service (which sucked) and signed with T-Mobile and got this phone for free After spending all week reading all these threads i can say im one of the lucky ones since i got the good chip and good screen and rooted my phone and im running Sysnthetic_Aospx great rom btw. Any other good roms that i should try? Anywho im rooted and this isnt another "which rom is better" im actually a developer and i want to get my hands dirty and try and compile kernels any guides out there for me to start compiling and building my kernel environment?
I know my way around developing roms and wanted to know what developers develop for this device im willing to give you guys a hand if u need it or just be a tester.
Btw my name is Mr. Iffy ill try to help when i can hopefully one of the devs can help me with an Ice cream kernel to develop for this device. If someone can also tell me what devs are here i only see like 4 of them Synthetic and elginsk8r and awesome and cnote. Thanks guys hopefully i can be more of help around here.
Welcome! It's great to have another dev among us. Unfortunately, we have lost many of our devs to other devices, but a few talented ones remain. Hopefully you and the remaining devs will be able to bring a fully functional ICS Sense ROM to our little community.
Again, welcome!
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Welcome! It's great to have another dev among us. Unfortunately, we have lost many of our devs to other devices, but a few talented ones remain. Hopefully you and the remaining devs will be able to bring a fully functional ICS Sense ROM to our little community.
Again, welcome!
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Thanks, i hope so too i sent a private message to elgins8r and synthetic hopefully they can help me build a kernel.
Welcome to the party, what do you know about building kernels?
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Welcome to the party, what do you know about building kernels?
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Nothing really but is willing to learn if u give me the terminal code to compile the kernel environment I know my way around
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Hey welcome, we have a developer among us!
You know how to compile and port ROMs?
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Yes I know how to port, build cyanogen roms from source not ics yet that's still new to me but I want to learn to compile kernels and such
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Yes I know how to port, build cyanogen roms from source not ics yet that's still new to me but I want to learn to compile kernels and such
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Kernels are difficult, i dont really know enoguh to teach you but there are plenty of guides. It tooks me 3 hours to compile 10% of a kernel and the process failed due to one of the files. We should collarborate.
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Kernels are difficult, i dont really know enoguh to teach you but there are plenty of guides. It tooks me 3 hours to compile 10% of a kernel and the process failed due to one of the files. We should collarborate.
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Definitely can u post which guide u followed
Look forward to your work
Devs wise, there is a few, like the ones you listed. You also have my; Team Inferno an another team call AndroidInsomnia (killer miui builds).
Perfect Android is a redistribution of the Android Open Source Project and Google software code that I have lightly modified to make as a daily driver for myself that I'm sharing with the community. This project doesn't have and won't focus on adding a ton of features and mods but instead focus on stability, and reliability so yes basically this is a stock like rom but not just stock my only efforts will be to make it run better, and be more polished, and complete.
GOOGLE APPS ARE INCLUDED
DOWNLOAD:
https://hotfile.com/dl/181925379/d84644d/perfect_grouper_ota_2012-12-01.zip.html
Mirrors:
If you have an error or something pops up I ask that before you post about it please make sure that you are running the ROM as provided. I cannot troubleshoot anything that is related to using other kernels, mods, or themes.
This ROM is basically like a stock rom of jelly bean so there is not a need for screen shots ........
Always remember that XDA started out as a great place and will remain a great place as long as we are great to each other anything used in this ROM is available upon request and feel free to use this as a base rom for any other project my ROM is un-branded just give me some mention .......
WANT TO CUSTOMIZE THIS ROM READ THIS:
Like the ROM and want to add or remove anything or customize for yourself use this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=633246 DSIXDA's Kitchen. Its a great kitchen for customizing prebuilt ROMs
CREDITS:
CyanogenMod Team
Google - I used their apps
AOSP - of course
Probably gonna add a changelog here
AOSP 4.2 ROM so quickly? That will be interesting
Can you have some screenshots?
yep its uploaded
it looks just like stock I built it to be at least as good as what you get from google if everything is working correctly that is when I will begin modifying but for now it looks like the stock ROM so I didn't think screenshots would be needed
first of all you have to give us changelog, then i'll flash it, because now i don't know exactly what are the differences between Your rom and stock, so is it worth flash it?
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first of all you have to give us changelog, then i'll flash it, because now i don't know exactly what are the differences between Your rom and stock, so is it worth flash it?
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Its solely up to you guys if you want to flash it as this is an expensive hobby for me I'm just sharing what I do with the community so is it worth it, for me yeah, for you I really don't care, I hope I'm not coming off as an ass but I have to draw a line somewhere. I not making any claims with this ROM I just sharing it if you use it fine if not fine, I don't get into the whole screenshots large claims huge changelog thing I just post and share I also maintain this ROM for the Sprint Galaxy Nexus which it has done just fine so if you want you can do a search here and see what and where I come from .......
I'm very happy when see any new rom in N7 development, because nexus need fresh look from developers, so i was thinking that You could push some new tweaks into ours devices. Almost all roms here are just "cleaned" or "minimalistic" or "performanced" in real these rom are almost stock with the same user experience. So do not get angry when I want to know if there will be something more here...
Does it work with twrp?
After flash with twrp, I see the information is Android 4.2 JOP40C. I dont know whether it is flashed or not?
I will happily try your rom to see how it compares to CleanRom, give my feedback tomorrow
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I'm very happy when see any new rom in N7 development, because nexus need fresh look from developers, so i was thinking that You could push some new tweaks into ours devices. Almost all roms here are just "cleaned" or "minimalistic" or "performanced" in real these rom are almost stock with the same user experience. So do not get angry when I want to know if there will be something more here...
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I'm not getting angry with you in fact I agree however, regardless of how you feel about those roms someone still put that effort into them. Honestly for me the N7 is a new device and before I go making claims that my ROM can start your car and end world hunger I want to make sure that it at least meets stock standards. AOSP has done a lot of work to somewhat remove google entries in their code so it has taken me a few days to re-build AOSP code to work correctly with G-APPS and other Google code I do NOT claim to be an over the top developer I just do this as a pastime I have certain things that I do not like and thats why I have started making my own ROMs so that I always get what I want. Now I can tell you this and I know this as a fact THIS IS NOT A WINZIP KITCHEN ROM IT IS BUILT FROM SOURCE it took hella work to get it up to a win zip ROM and thats where we're at so far lol. When I learn all the changes to the 4.2 coding I will start to add small feature to my ROM.
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Does it work with twrp?
After flash with twrp, I see the information is Android 4.2 JOP40C. I dont know whether it is flashed or not?
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yes it works with TWRP and the information in the About screen is correct
There isn't developer section in setting menu. Is this normal?
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There isn't developer section in setting menu. Is this normal?
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Tap on the build in settings>about phone 7 times and it appears.
Paul
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Tap on the build in settings>about phone 7 times and it appears.
Paul
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Thank you! I dont know this.
This ROM doesn't include busybox. I think jakdillard should install busybox by default .
Testing this ROM with LeanKernel.
SuperBoUDS said:
Thank you! I dont know this.
This ROM doesn't include busybox. I think jakdillard should install busybox by default .
Testing this ROM with LeanKernel.
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lol who knows I might depends on how things go with this
Installed thid yesterday and so far no problems, nice deep sleep of 96%. Nice work
With leanKernel, I just have 86% batterry overnight :crying:. I charged it fully the night before.
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With leanKernel, I just have 86% batterry overnight :crying:. I charged it fully the night before.
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haven't checked for myself but is leankernel updated for 4.2