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Disclaimer: The wordings in the thread are meant to be noob-friendly and for newer developers that have just dipped their feet into Android platform development. Hence, they won't be accurate in many places for the 'geek'. Also, we had started distributing shallow cloned sources with a depth of '1' instead of non-repo sources (as they are more or less of the same size). So this should not be a problem for the ROM developers in our opinion as they can be fetched by syncing.
Hello!
We, Android Developers, have many problems. One such of them is "SLOW INTERNET" or even "LOW BANDWIDTH".
Due to these problems, we are unable to sync the BIG chunk of Android source codes from the respective repositories.
Hence, most of the new and learning developers just fail at the first step: Downloading The Source Code!
So, here I present you with a thread, which contains links to download "HIGHLY COMPRESSED", untouched (unmodified) and full Android source codes of many different ROMs!
The links to the highly compressed source codes you will find here are not uploaded by me alone. There are many other people that have contributed.
Some of them are: @DigiGoon @MSF Jarvis and @regalstreak (me)
So, Let's begin!
First things first.
You should know what a repo is.
I quote XDA:
When you download a source code with repo, you get a folder named .repo in your working directory. It contains all the compressed .git format files that need to be in the source code.What is Repo?
Repo is a repository management tool built on top of Git.
It’s first purpose is to downloads files from multiple git repositories into your local working directory (aka the source tree). That means that you won’t have to manually download or fetch the latest changes from about 300+ projects (depending on if you are downloading AOSP, CM or AOKP for example), repo will do it for you.
The second purpose of repo is to made it easy to submit your code contributions for review to a Gerrit server.
After the source has been downloaded, the repo tool decompresses the files from the ".repo" folder and you get the source code in the working directory itself!
This project will give you a highly compressed shallow cloned and full tarball of the sources (for those who can't download it via repo or have limited speeds on github/aosp servers). More information is given in the FAQ section. It is must-read. Without it, you won't understand how to use these.
Note: You cannot go from CM12 source to CM12.1 or going CM12 to CM13 as these are different branches on the CyanogenMod repo. No way doing that. You will have to manually download the new source.
So, We are done with the information!
Now, The interesting part. The sources!
Note: All links on this thread are tap friendly! They open in new tabs
I have divided this into several sections for ease of reading and getting the sources. They are:
- Links Of All Source Currently Uploaded
- How To Request For A Source
- FAQ
- Announcements and General Stuff
- Reserved 2
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