[Q] Guide to Dev Rom's

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Hey been looking around through xda for a bit but couldnt find anything.

Im after a guide on how to start making my own ROM.

If anyone could post a link to a guide or let me know the important steps on how to start.

Had a U8800 for a bit and love it and want to make it perfect

Cheers

first you have to understand some programming language , specifically c or java, but most high level languages are similar

then I am told that you need to have a deep understanding of linux file system, which I don't... so I am not qualified to give you anymore advice...

For me I started out trying to port clockwork recovery to u8800. There's a guide by koush that gives the most basic steps on how to do this. Following that and doing a lot of reading I was able to get it pretty good and obviously Geno has since taken over to basically perfect it.

I think the recovery is a good place to start since it's similar to the normal android os but just really cut down. Try building it from source and work out how to get it on the phone and booted.

As well as Stockwell's very useful suggestion (do you have a link to the specific koush guide that you found useful, Stockwell?), you might want to go to XDA's Chef Central, and cyanogen's advice at :-
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=667298

below are the links to "further reading" that I've extracted from that post.

Android Developer Guides: http://d.android.com
Working with AOSP source: http://source.android.com
Platform Developer Guide: http://pdk.android.com
Android Gitweb: http://android.git.kernel.org
Git Ready (Git tips and tricks): http://www.gitready.com/
Building CyanogenMod: http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/index.ph...ng_from_source
How Dexopt works and what are those odex files: http://android.git.kernel.org/?p=pla...5936;hb=master

Originally Posted by stockwell

For me I started out trying to port clockwork recovery to u8800. There's a guide by koush that gives the most basic steps on how to do this. Following that and doing a lot of reading I was able to get it pretty good and obviously Geno has since taken over to basically perfect it.

I think the recovery is a good place to start since it's similar to the normal android os but just really cut down. Try building it from source and work out how to get it on the phone and booted.

Would you please give the link to koush's guide?

Here's the guide by koush:
http://www.koushikdutta.com/2010/10/...ry-to-new.html

I think it's missing some stuff though. At the very least it looks like you would need to do
. build/envsetup.sh before running lunch. I think there was another problem but I can't remember what it was now.

Thanks everyone for the info.
I am studying IT at the moment and am about to learn java so sort of wanted something to have a go at while learning