I’m planning to move towards using custom ROMs in order to have more control over what is and isn’t installed on my phone.
I’ve got an old spare S8 that I’m going to use as a testbed first to get hands on and learn a bit more. It looks like LineageOS doesn’t provide a build for that model so I’ll need to learn how to prepare one myself.
I’m no stranger to Linux - I’ve built my own kernel (and even once an LFS system) back in the day - what resources would be ideal for getting up to speed with Android?
I’d hopefully like resources that help me understand what’s going on rather than focus purely on completing one task or another.
if there are no custom roms for your device you should just give up. it requires so much resources that it’s almost tiring. If you really want to build lineage for your phone though, there’s a guide on lineage wiki to port the rom. It’s really easy, you just have to download the source code of the rom, add the source code of your phone with its proprietary blobs, then build. The hard part is wether you have the hardware to build or no. You need: 64gb of ram, ccache and zram enabled, 300gbs of storage, and an 8 cores cpu
A vanilla build of lineage won’t give you any of the actual advantages of a custom ROM either
Dude building Android is THAT intense??
You’ll be porting, or even writing, drivers for proprietary hardware. Radios in particular are known to be difficult to work with, and phones have a lot of radios.
You might be overlooking the economics in the sense that there tends to be a reason why devices aren’t supported. Oftentimes there is no sources available to build the necessary hardware support.
yeah true some OEMs take ages to release their source code, or sometimes don’t do it at all even though they’re obligated by their GPL license
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