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[Q] Android SDK - How do I port ROMS???

Hi,
I'm new here and have been looking at some tutorials on rom kitchens and rom ediing for my HTC Wildfire. I was jst wondering how to port, say, the android 2.3 rom or something from the android SDK and use it on my phone. I'd also like to know how easy/hard it is.
Thanks,
sato

satopunch89 said:
Hi,
I'm new here and have been looking at some tutorials on rom kitchens and rom ediing for my HTC Wildfire. I was jst wondering how to port, say, the android 2.3 rom or something from the android SDK and use it on my phone. I'd also like to know how easy/hard it is.
Thanks,
sato
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Do you know anything about programming? Do you know anything about Linux? Do you have any driver building experience?
I f you answer no to anyone of these, I would say it's extremely hard.

Thanks. I don't really know much about any of those things (Except a tiny bit about linux) oh well...

satopunch89 said:
Thanks. I don't really know much about any of those things (Except a tiny bit about linux) oh well...
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hey why give up so easily? if you really wanted to learn there are so many threads to get you started. first get a linux distro, ubuntu recommended for most people.
there's dsixia's kitchen around somewhere. play with that a little. read the script's he uses in that kitchen. you'll learn a bit.
then onto building. cyanogen's wiki shows how to build from source and set up your machine to sync with it etc etc. get those sorted and try learn the above mentioned

Cool!
Are there any links to these (Or are we not allowed to post them?)

Does it have to be a linux distro? Can I use OSX?

Hacking is cool, but the problem is that it is very hard, and demands a lot of experience.

how do i delete android sdk from my vista computer

noeneel said:
Does it have to be a linux distro? Can I use OSX?
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http://source.android.com/source/initializing.html
This is where i started... hope it helps

Sorry about bringing back this old thread, but I'm also interested in this. I have programming experience with C, C++, C# and Java. I've also developed apps for Android. I've been using Ubuntu as my main operating system for a while now, so I'm good with Linux too. The only thing I lack is the driver programming experience. I'd still like some info/tutorials about porting ROMs, if anyone knows any good ones.

hey i been wondering the same thing. i been trying to play with m10 tools and been skining apk files with apkmanager for the last bit but have been wanting to port the ics sense 3.5 well at the very least re size it but cant find any guides, full guides to do this. anything pointing in the right direction would be great just dont say search xda been there done that. google works better.... but still doesnt give much info on porting besides some basic files to change but leaves out how to re size

wait4me2burn said:
hey i been wondering the same thing. i been trying to play with m10 tools and been skining apk files with apkmanager for the last bit but have been wanting to port the ics sense 3.5 well at the very least re size it but cant find any guides, full guides to do this. anything pointing in the right direction would be great just dont say search xda been there done that. google works better.... but still doesnt give much info on porting besides some basic files to change but leaves out how to re size
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Can't mess with 3.5 yet as they new files can't be decoded properly. For resizing you have to edit all the demention xmls on all the apks and m10 files. Lots of trial and error. Make sure you good with logcat

maybe this can help a little
http://www.freeyourandroid.com/guide/porting-android

heres your answer
cooltom1323 said:
how do i delete android sdk from my vista computer
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by deleting the map where all the files are or, if you hae installed it using a setup,
use the uninstaller program.

[Q] Help?

So I have an old account on here, but I never used it for what it is intended to be. And quite honestly, I didn't like the account name. But what I'm really asking for here is help. I want to be a developer, but I dont know where to start. I want to learn how to make and/or port roms, how to theme other roms, and even make my own apps. If anybody would care to help a noob out, I would appreciate it greatly. Thank you in advance for your time, and any help that I recieve.

I would suggest learning java language which the source code is wrote in if you want to be a developer. But if you want the easy root look for the guides on cooking roms using kitchens then you can create roms with little programming knowledge.

anarchyuk said:
I would suggest learning java language which the source code is wrote in if you want to be a developer. But if you want the easy root look for the guides on cooking roms using kitchens then you can create roms with little programming knowledge.
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Thanks for the tip on java language. And I know about the kitchens and such, its just that I don't have a mac or a linux based computer, and from what i read, you have to have one of those for a kitchen to work.

ubuntu is always free for download from their website (you can run it from a flash drive or dual boot it alongside windows)

ubuntu will install within the windows file system also and let you dual boot. might be a bit of a learning curve but its by far the best os to use when just getting started and even for more advanced usage..
once you are done with ubuntu as long as you installed it using the wubi installer you can remove it from add remove program etc...

First step on the journy to becoming a developer would be the most important one:
Learning to use search functions.
Your question has already been covered multiple times in this subforum.

anarchyuk said:
ubuntu will install within the windows file system also and let you dual boot. might be a bit of a learning curve but its by far the best os to use when just getting started and even for more advanced usage..
once you are done with ubuntu as long as you installed it using the wubi installer you can remove it from add remove program etc...
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I did not know that, so thank you guys for all your help.

[Q] How to edit Framework files?

I was wanting to make a complete port of the optimus 2x theme/framework. How would I go about doing this? what are the most basic changes I could make to start this?
I have Ubuntu setup and Android Kitchen JDK/SDK/NDK etc.

Most basic changes would be swapping png files around. After that would be editing xml files. I don't know about you OS, but I use APK Manager to decompile and recompile. And I use EditPad to edit the decompiled xml files.
Next step up would be smali, and after that is beyond me. There are some very talented themers in the G2x area that might help you; KingDavid63, bmann_420, and mmapcpro are the first 3 off the top of my head.
Document by Theming Gurus
Awesome Theming Guide

Awesome! Thanks so much!!

[Q] Cloning BBM on the same device

Hi,
I have looking for tutorial modding BBM for cloning, So I have BBM1, BBM2 on the same device. Where the first I should modified? I use APK tool to decompile and notepad+ for my editing. My first effort I tried to compare BBM original source file and BBM modified/cloned with WinMerge. In *.xml file I see a lot of difference files, but for *.so (library) nothing touch. My goal is I want using the newest BBM version cloned... Would you give me some clue for this?
Thanks

[Completed] What is an Android Application made of ?

I want to know the basic parts of an android application
For example :
A mobile is made of : battery,simcard,memorycard, a display,camera,toch sensors,circuits..etc
In a similar way i want to know about android application basic layers in simple words
thankyou

Hi,
Thanks for using XDA Assist.
You should at least find png and .9.png files, xml files, java,... Feel free to use Apktool to decompile any application.