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Where do you find info about Android customization? (lemmy.world)

submitted 11 months ago by KISSmyOS@lemmy.world to c/android@lemmy.world

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Whenever I search for questions I have about Android system apps, ADB, flashing, etc. I noticed all the search results are really scammy-looking websites with instructions that sound like they were translated from Chinese by an AI.
It doesn't make a difference if I use Google, Duckduckgo or Bing.

Also, there seems to be hardly any official documentation for Android available. Even finding out what the preinstalled system apps even do, what exactly is needed for push messages to work, or what the different permissions do is impossible for me.

I know of xdaforums.com but when I look there I usually end up in a thread with 30+ pages full of users asking questions that get no helpful answer.

How come there is so little good information on Android? Or am I looking in the wrong places?

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[–] Mojojojo1993@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I wouldn't say it's easy. I expect 90% of people have never touched a command prompt. It takes me she's just to find the thing. Need to download all the files then start commands.

Once you've unlocked and got TWRP it's really easy.

If phones would just preinstall TWRP and be unlockable. That would free up all the issues. Then it's just transferring files over. Noice and simple

[–] K4sum1@lemmy.zip 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I meant relatively as it's more of a nerd thing to use custom ROMs, and you would usually have more experience with this kind of thing.

My issues are things nobody has cared enough to try, or impossible to fix idk.

[–] Mojojojo1993@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

True. Be better if they made it easier. More would do it.