Patchrom

Get Android SDK

In order to build patchrom project, you must have android sdk installed.(http://developer.android.com/sdk/installing.html)

And add the sdk tools and platform-tools to PATH.

vim .bashrc

export PATH=$PATH:/home/xxx/android-sdk/tools:/home/xxx/anroid-sdk/platform-tools

Getting Started

To get started with MiCode/patchrom, you'll need to get familiar with Git and Repo.

To initialize your local repository using the patchrom trees, use a command like this:

mkdir patchrom

cd patchrom

repo init -u git://github.com/MiCode/patchrom.git -b marshmallow

Then to sync up:

repo sync

Build

Assumed current directory is patchtom and you want to build the ROM for Nexus6P

 . build/envsetup.sh
 cd angler
 make fullota

After build completed, there will be a fullota.zip under out directory, now you can flash this file into your device.

Porting new device

Asssumed current directory is patchrom and you want to port miui to a new android device xblade

Prerequiste: (1) Your device has root privilege or a rooted kernel(preferred)

(2) Your device can flash ZIP from recovery(twrp recovery is preferred)

Workflow:

(1) connect your device to PC, ensure adb works

(2) run the following commands

 . build/envsetup.sh

 mkdir xblade

 cd xblade
  
 adb reboot recovery

 ../tools/releasetools/ota_target_from_phone -r (this will generate a stockrom.zip, flash this zip in recovery mode to ensure it works)

 cp ../honor/makefile .(modify the local-zip-file to stockrom.zip, read the comments in makefile)

 make workspace

 make firstpatch (this will add the miui code into framework/android.policy/services.jar, resolve any conflict)

 make fullota

Now you can get your own miui ROM, enjoy it!