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I'm planning to move towards using custom ROMs in order to have more control over what is and isn't installed on my phone.

I've got an old spare S8 that I'm going to use as a testbed first to get hands on and learn a bit more. It looks like LineageOS doesn't provide a build for that model so I'll need to learn how to prepare one myself.

I'm no stranger to Linux - I've built my own kernel (and even once an LFS system) back in the day - what resources would be ideal for getting up to speed with Android?

I'd hopefully like resources that help me understand what's going on rather than focus purely on completing one task or another.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

I'm a beginner as well and I found Alaska Linux user channel on yt a good source for explanations. First videos are a bit outdated... some new tech like Soong was introduced - which is a new, google developed, build system for Android.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnGqG_jyyXmTzdamBpKfeHA

Go to the playlist section. It groups videos per topic, e.g. building a device tree from scratch.

S8 is a not a good choice If I remember correctly, no custom roms exist for that phone. Reasons might be due to exynos of that era...