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I'm happy to see some interest in custom ROM. I personally think that nowadays this is the best way for a software engineer to have a meaningful impact on their own daily life. If your goal is just to peak behind the curtain and see how those things gets built other comments will probably be more relevant than mine. You'll need a pretty beefy Linux machine 200GB SSD storage, 32GB RAM, >8 CPU cores is recommended. You…
If you stay out of the weeds in the community and focus on the technical aspects, you can easily get a supported device up and running with your own signing key, update server, and everything else needed.
I did for years, before switching to GrapheneOS.
Its a really comprehensive hand-holding guide, written in a very engaging way:
There is also the mainlining guides at postmarketOS wiki, though these are harder to understand in my opinion:
https://source.android.com/docs/setup
In particular, understanding the repo tool, manifests, etc. is also quite necessary to get started.
Obviously, there is a lot more to working on custom ROMs than that. I've seen a few resources mentioned in other threads that seem great for that.
I'm happy to see some interest in custom ROM. I personally think that nowadays this is the best way for a software engineer to have a meaningful impact on their own daily life. If your goal is just to peak behind the curtain and see how those things gets built other comments will probably be more relevant than mine. You'll need a pretty beefy Linux machine 200GB SSD storage, 32GB RAM, >8 CPU cores is recommended. You…
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