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19th May 2012, 09:37 AM (Last edited by neroyoung; 4th June 2012 at 04:14 AM.) [Guide]Complete Android ROM development and essential tutorials ~~ By Nero Young ~~

DirtyRacun Released EVO 4G LTES-Off for 1.15/1.19 without Dow For some HTC EVO 4G owners, its been

Hi, If you willing to learn to build custom ROM then you should have following things
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Basic Knowledge about handling Command Promt Basic Windows software knowledge PC with all tools properly installed And a mobile with bootloader unlocked This tutorial is for "Windows OS (Windows 7 x64 in my case)" And Android 2.3+ OS (2.3.4 GingerBread in my case). But Dxda Kitchen also supports Ubuntu/Linux and also can support Ice cream sandwich In this whole post you will learn How To Make custom ROM - Done Unpack .ftf packages - Done Use Cygwin - Done Setup Android Kitchen - Done Edit .apk files - Done Edit .jar files - Done Edit .9.png files - Done Rooting System - Done Writing scripts Making flashable zips - Done Porting apk software A2SD Techs Editing build.prop - Done Editing init.d tweaks Information of every customizable file Making Hosts apn configs editing boot.img converting png to rle or vice versa Writing updater-script Making Aroma Installer How to set default Settings after ROM installations more and more things to arrive

YAAB: Yet Another Au Brightness App Although automatic bri a fairly common featur days, there arent alwa more

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Nexus 4 Rooted Alrea Surprise) If you are one of those enough to snag a Nex the Play Store went int and all more

WebView Brings Sma Browsing for Some X Devices Sony has done some work with their Xperia d One of the more

Android 4.2 App Pack for Any Device Runnin Deodexed 4.1 or highe With Android 4.2 touch wont be long until the

Tools Required : (Update them manually and report me dead links please)
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Download the tools as per your need.Link is given in the name itself below.... Flashtool - For Flashing stock ROM if anything goes wrong (Download link in the installation tab of website) apktool Direct Download- for editing apk files and jar files (you can use APK manager but apktool is simpler) Cywign Direct Download- Linus Terminal For Windows ROM Kitchen (ROM Development Tool) Direct Download- For Cooking custom ROM + boot.img related tools - to edit boot.img files (Its inside the ROM Kitchen Files, Please update this Kitchen to latest version its out dated now,for this use inbuilt updater of kitchen) Official Link to kitchen dxda Kitchen - Official Thread and Github source Please refer FAQ on official thread for Kitchen related problems ftf-extractor Direct Download- It will extract system files from the ftf package which you will use to make your ROM fastboot Direct Download- For flashing kernel to your device DoomLords Easy Root Kit v4 Direct Download- To Root Stock/Custom ROM

DoomLords Easy Root Kit v4 Direct Download- To Root Stock/Custom ROM Demo META-INF Folder Direct Download- For Making Flashable zip files DroidExplorer - For advance tools regarding real time phone memory handling through windows. Flashable Zip Demo Direct Download- For those who want to just apply some stuffs through CWM Customized build.prop demo - Download Build.prop

Special Thanks to dsixda for his awesome kitchen DooMLoRD for providing root files
Please kindly remind me if i have forgotten to write your name in thanks section, i have collected all things from many many sources and with modification. Please Hit Thanks button for him

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19th May 2012, 09:37 AM (Last edited by neroyoung; 27th May 2012 at 03:56 AM.)

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Tools Overview
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Introduction
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This video gives information about the basic tools for ROM development. Tools will be uploaded once the tutorial is completed.And the links will be posted in 1st post.This tutorial is for all kinds of devices.No matter what your device is ... you can use this tutorial... Though ftf files are only for Xperia devcies which are used in flashtool to flash stock ROMs to Xperia devices.If you have other device the don't get confused if you will not ftf file for your device.Try other sources to get system files.
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Settings Up Cygwin And Kitchen

This video teaches you how to setup Cygwin And Kitchen.The softwares told in this video can be downloaded from first post
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Setting Up Remaining Tools (ftf extractor,flashtool,fastboot etc)

This video teaches you how to setup all remaining files and folders...
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19th May 2012, 09:37 AM (Last edited by neroyoung; 7th October 2012 at 08:32 PM.)

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Getting System Folder

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Universal method for obtaining system folder (Root needed)

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This tutorial guides you how to extract system folder from .ftf packages and get system folder for your custom ROM easily. For this we have used ftf extractor. Though you can flash your device,install stock ROM root it and then copy all system file to SD Card and get the system folder.This is universal method and can be done easily using terminal emulator. For this simply download Terminal Emulator from Android Market. Install it on your freshly flashed device as stated above. Open it and type: su This will give root permission to your terminal emulator. Then type:

Then type: tar -c system/* >> sdcard/system.tar This will copy all your /system folder to your SDcard with name System.tar This will take some time to finish so be patient. After it's done you should have a tar file in your /sdcard named system.tar You can extract it using Winrar or 7zip software. But yes this will have huge size

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folders so you will have to delete them. After extracting this system.tar file you will get following folders (Similar one)
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/ a p p / b i n / e t c / f o n t s / f r a m e w o r k / l i b / l o s t f o u n d / m e d i a / s d / s e m c / u s r / x b i n b u i l d . p r o p A n ds o m eo t h e rf i l e sa n df o l d e r sl i k e" " a u t o r o o t e d , k e r n e lf i l e s "e t c

Now simply delete the folders marked in red color and its done.Don't worry red colors above,we don't need them. And the final files that we will have in our system folders will be
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if you don't have folders with

/ a p p / b i n / e t c / f o n t s / f r a m e w o r k / l i b / m e d i a / s e m c / u s r / x b i n b u i l d . p r o p

Now thats all... Use this pre rooted ROM as your base now and have fun in tweaking and customizing .... Hope this is simplest method that you could ever find...

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Extracting .FTF File Only For GB ROM

Try this method if ftf extractor is failing for ICS. And note that ftf files are only for sony models. Another methods to get system folder.
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19th May 2012, 09:38 AM

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Working With Android Kitchen

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Getting Started
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This tutorial will tell you how to setup working folder in kitchen and how to root your ROM,change name,add busy box etc. This is pre requirement on ROM development.So this video will continue after total customization is done ! After this video you can jump to next post to proceed with customization and then come back to setup to second video in this post so you can continue packing of system folder in flashable zip
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Finalizing ROM
This video shows you how to finalize making zip file of your ROM and use it for flashing.
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Working With APKTOOL

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Editing .APK Files

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This video teaches you how to setup APKTOOL folder as well as teaches you how to edit .apk files.
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Editing .JAR Files

In this next video you will get information on how to edit .jar files like services.jar using APKTOOL.
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19th May 2012, 09:39 AM

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Customization Tutorials
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Dealing With .9.png Files

This video teaches you how to edit draw9 i.e .9.png image files easily without any errors.

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19th May 2012, 09:39 AM (Last edited by neroyoung; 26th May 2012 at 09:51 AM.)

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Performance,Battery Life Using Build.prop Tweaks!

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Editing Build.prop
This video will guide you for editing build.prop of your device but make sure you don't copy my build.prop.Edit yours build.prop and use syntax from my build.prop Here is download link for you - Download Build.prop
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