Tools and programs needed

[twotouchface]

I'm interested in developing roms for myself and have tried the kitchen and haven't had much luck. What tools, applications, OS, etc are needed to begin developing? My apologies if this has already been answered.

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[jimzweb1]

I'm interested in developing roms for myself and have tried the kitchen and haven't had much luck. What tools, applications, OS, etc are needed to begin developing? My apologies if this has already been answered.

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Ok, the first question you have to ask yourself is what you are looking to do ? Are you wanting to develop a rom from scratch ( one giant size learning curve here ) OR do you want to take a base rom and customize it ( basically theming the rom ) OR do you want to find a port from a different device and adapt it to a Sprint note 3 ( cool but usually a lot of issues and things that don't work ). Here is some info http://xda-university.com/as-a-developer/introduction-how-an-android-rom-is-built and http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1661770 and some videos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDXUZN7--Xo and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pAr5VzpxyY and http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2148315 .

I have been getting into Theming roms, learning how to use the Apktool, notepad++, and Beyond Compare and GIMP to modify and create images ( the learning curve is steep ) !!! OH and you need a better then average computer, crashed mine once already !!!