Imagine it, not a repo, but a site or app that lets you “try out” custom roms through an embedded or emulated interface.

It’s such a hassle downloading and installing every rom out there to see how they feel and function, it would be nice to be able to take them out for test drives. I think this could be theoretically possible, several bluestack emulators for the most popular custom roms emulated as an instance of mostly just the lock and home screen with a few dummy apps, kind of like how things are set up in a phone shop.

Unfortunately I’m not quite skilled enough to set something like this up, and I’m sure the server hosting would be a bit of a financial burden but I think this is a cool, albeit, unlikely idea.

  • kratoz29English
    10•5 months ago

    I like that idea.

    Swapping custom ROMs are the distro hopping of Android.

    What I do to make the process faster is:

    • Backup all my shit, with Google backup (which if it works, it is way crippled) and Swift backup root.
    • Download newer ROM and desired root method (KSU as of lately).
    • Flash said ROM and root it.
    • Grab data from Google, give root permissions to Swift Backup and complete the data retrieval sane edition.
    • Rinse and repeat.

    My device is EOL and most custom ROMs come decrypted by default, so I am in no need to format data, which just makes this process faster as my data remains in the same folder, but if you have a good cloud solution and nice internet speed Swift Backup can take advantage of that.