Well known
developers from around the world including Chainfire, Xplodwild and Dees_Troy have come together to build another aftermarket
ROM (or
custom ROM) which aims to make the
Android operating system more open and user-friendly - the
OmniROM.
We've all been following the progress of
CyanogenMod which by far is the most popular aftermarket
ROM for Android devices with more than a handful of devices have official support, and innumerable ones having unofficial ports. The makers of
CyanogenMod recently formed a company out of it and got themselves a
hardware partner in OPPO. All this makes the birth of another promising aftermarket
ROM --
OmniROM -- a very digestible story.
The
ROM will be available for dev-friendly devices like the Nexus lineup (most devices, including the Nexus 4), OPPO Find 5,
Xperia Z,
Xperia Z Ultra, et al. Developers of the
ROM would hope to rival other popular ROMs such as CyanogemMod itself, Paranoid Android, AOKP, etc. OmniInstaller, an open-source
ROM installer is also being worked upon, which will
aim to make installation of any
custom ROM easier on your Android smartphone. While the
CyanogenMod team too is
working on an installer, it is limited to
CyanogenMod ROMs only.