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original development?

why our SGY has no Original Development Section, we have alot of original roms and kernels< I think they should be in a specific forum:silly:

mohamedrashad said:
why our SGY has no Original Development Section, we have alot of original roms and kernels< I think they should be in a specific forum:silly:
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all roms and kernels are in the dev section
origional development is for roms built from source and there are only a couple of source built cm roms - not really worth its own forum
The following are most likely “Original Development”:
Official releases of highly original and upstream custom ROMs (built from the ground up with significant original development within them
Official releases/development of such original ROMs, perhaps posted by the maintainer or their nominated person.
A significant “first” in development for a device. Significant is subjective, but it is likely something which took considerable time/effort, and is generally accepted by developers to be significant and non-trivial.
Kernels which are built with beneficial changes that are not simply pulled from other kernels already available. Some element of original work is expected.
Tools and utilities with a clear purpose, and which are well-made, and useful to users. They should have an element of originality, either in purpose or through significant improvement in the means of operation.
Significant port of a ROM from one device to another, giving enhanced features or functionality to users of the target device. The port should be beneficial (a port from two virtually identical devices isn’t original development, it’s winzipping, and nobody really benefits from this, as it’s not development)

marcussmith2626 said:
all roms and kernels are in the dev section
origional development is for roms built from source and there are only a couple of source built cm roms - not really worth its own forum
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devices like galaxy core have a orginal dev section with only cwm on it

mohamedrashad said:
devices like galaxy core have a orginal dev section with only cwm on it
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if you feel like this forum needs one you can ask a mod for a review
see the criteria in my post above

[Q] What's the difference between these two forums?

One is 'Galaxy S 4 i9500 Android Development' and the other 'Galaxy S 4 i9500 Original Android Development'.Both say development for exynos based s4.Kindly reply.

maneet21 said:
One is 'Galaxy S 4 i9500 Android Development' and the other 'Galaxy S 4 i9500 Original Android Development'.Both say development for exynos based s4.Kindly reply.
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One is for users of roms based on the original factory shipped software and one is for custom roms.
Or something like that.

The stickies in both sections answer your question very clearly. You might want to check them out.

Galaxy S4 i9500 Android Development contains mostly Touchwiz based Roms/kernels.
Galay S4 i9500 Original Android Development contains AOSP based custom Roms/kernels
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I actually asked same question as you do about year ago or so ,
and now I'm telling you what i have been told:
1. original forum is where people post THEIR own work, most likely kernel and AOSP ROMs
2. and Android Development, is about modification of OTHER'S work , like rework of existing ROMs/Kernels and so on....

Original Android Development vs. Android Development

A question for understanding forums selection:
For me is "Original Android Development" that the ROM based on Stock ROM from Device, for example : HTC M8 with Sense6 is stock and original and HTC without Sense6 like CM is Android Development
Is this right or give me please another explanation!?
Thx in advance

No, you have it reversed. Also kernels, recoveries and stuff tends to go into original. This should be mentioned in a sticky in one or both of these subforums.
The wording is bad, the distinction arbitrary, and all over it's a terrible idea.

This has been brought up a few times.
Original Android development can have both sense roms and non sense roms eg CM, recoveries and kernels. The difference is the OP of the ROM has had to have made a large contribution to make the rom, recovery or kernel different to anything else of its type. This means that there has to be a large number of features that are unique to that rom and not offered in other roms.
Also any builds that go into OAD forums should be official builds by official maintainers as well. All non official builds should be in AD forum.
This would apply to kernels recoveries etc as well.
Edit here is the link to the main page that says what can go in to OAD and what cant: Introducing Original Development Forums for More Devices

Hi , thanks for your reply !
Now i got it !
Regards

why don't open a section for cyanogen??

hello. as most users have stock based modded roms, why don't separe the cyanogen? these roms confuse users with rare problems too...... i hope this solution because this is sometimes a problem

easiest, just to go cm homepage.

i don't need cm... the cm's rom invade the android development note 3, i ask why isn't there the separation

Most users don't use stock based roms many many use CM and without CM their would be a none to poor development scene .
One of the basics is if you don't understand then don't use modded firmware .

i asked for forum organization, and not for say that cm is better or not than stock based.... your answer is not pertinent to my question. goodbye

myabc said:
i don't need cm... the cm's rom invade the android development note 3, i ask why isn't there the separation
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What? CM "invades" Android development? :laugh: You can guess who the first team was, to modify Android and present it as a custom ROM in the Android Development section. What's actually invading the Android Development section are all those "Stable, ROCK SOLID,® 100% Stable | BETTARY LAyF ◄◄©" TouchWiz ROM's! Those need a seperate section called "Stock ROM's with community bloatware instead of OEM bloatware claiming to break the barriers of physiks and being faster than light and breaking the first and second law of thermodynamics"... Not all of them of course. Exceptions are there.
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I don't understand this forum

Hi everyone,
I may will buy a S5 (SM-G900F) soon, and in this case I will root it and install a custom ROM.
But I don't understand how this forum works : what is the difference between android development, unified development and original android development ?
Thanks.
PS : I'm french, sorry if my english is bad.

android development is kinda general, basic rom stuff. Unified development is for all the versions of the phone as there are over 2 dozen different S5's and original development is for custom ROMs that are mainly AOSP based and or written by a specific dev from source code