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It's called AOSP. Community makes AOSP images for a bunch different devices. If you are looking for one image that supports multiple devices look for AOSP trebl
by ascii_only 8y ago
It's called AOSP. Community makes AOSP images for a bunch different devices. If you are looking for one image that supports multiple devices look for AOSP treble rom.
- Jaruzel 8y agoIf you mean the XDA developers AOSP roms, then they are most definitely NOT pure AOSP - Those guys are incapable of just building a rom from AOSP without adding their own cruft. Not to mention that the XDA Developers site is impossible to navigate.
- snazz 8y agoLineage at least feels like a legit project. I can’t feel too sure downloading random ROMs (with closed-source additions) from XDA considering how shady the entire thing feels. 'jcs sums it up nicely: https://mobile.twitter.com/jcs/status/1069346105069092864 https://mobile.twitter.com/jcs/status/1069346105069092864
- IshKebab 8y agoI think the forum software (phpBB and its clones) must be partly to blame. I don't think I've ever been to a phpBB-style forum that wasn't like that. Contrast it with StackOverflow for example.
- ascii_only 8y agoLineageOS also has proprietary blobs inside.
- kuon 8y agoI have been a programmer/hacker for a long time, but the XDA dev forum is still some kind of obscure place I do not understand. Also the tone is not very user friendly in general, I understand that when you post a rom you built you don't want to do support, but it can be pretty hostile.
- seotut2 8y agoThe whole Android ecosystem seems so immensely bloated and convoluted. A repository size of >80GB just to build an embedded OS? Memory requirements are also huge. The divergence from mainline linux, creating a new HAL interface, so much code and logic duplication which already existed elsewhere as FOSS software.
- ascii_only 8y agoSame applies to LineageOS. Most images of LineageOS also have patches for driver support etc. Only small number of images are official.