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How To Make Your Own Custom Rom? - Part 1: Setting Up Dsixda's Android Kitchen

This document provides instructions for setting up Dsixda's Android Kitchen, a tool that allows users to modify and create custom Android ROMs. It discusses downloading Java JDK, Cygwin packages, and the latest version of Android Kitchen. It then provides step-by-step instructions for installing Cygwin and setting up the Android Kitchen folder and menu within Cygwin on a Windows PC. The goal is to help beginners get started with modifying and developing basic custom ROMs.

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How To Make Your Own Custom Rom? - Part 1: Setting Up Dsixda's Android Kitchen

This document provides instructions for setting up Dsixda's Android Kitchen, a tool that allows users to modify and create custom Android ROMs. It discusses downloading Java JDK, Cygwin packages, and the latest version of Android Kitchen. It then provides step-by-step instructions for installing Cygwin and setting up the Android Kitchen folder and menu within Cygwin on a Windows PC. The goal is to help beginners get started with modifying and developing basic custom ROMs.

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How to Make Your Own Custom Rom?

- Part 1 : Setting Up Dsixda's Android


Kitchen.

By Yagya Gaire
Labels: Android Kitchen, Development
So, Do you want to make a custom rom or, mod one that is made already? If your answer to this
question is yes then you are at the right place. In this article I will help you get started with
setting up an environment to make your own custom roms or edit the ones that are developed
already. We are going to take help of dsixda's Android Kitchen Utility to help us in this task and
in this article I am going to help you get started by guiding you through the installation process
of Android Kitchen on your Personal Computer.

So, you might have the question in your mind what exactly is Android Kitchen and what
does it do and whom it is for? Continue reading to know all this as well as to get instructions on
setting it up on your PC.

What is Dsixda's Android Kitchen?


Android Kitchen is a tool/utility to help beginners edit/modify/make (to some extent) their own
custom rom. Use it and you will know how useful it is for getting started with Android
Development.

What Does It Do?


Android kitchen has following features/options to help you with the task of moding or making
your own custom rom. With these options you are definitely sure to make a simple custom rom,
if not a full-fledged one even without no or very little knowledge.

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Android Kitchen - by dsixda (xda-developers.com)
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Main Menu

1. Set up working folder from ROM


2. Add root permissions
3. Add BusyBox
4. Disable boot screen sounds
5. Add wireless tethering
6. Zipalign all *.apk files to optimize RAM usage
7. Change wipe status of ROM
8. Change name of ROM
9. Check update-script for errors
10. Show working folder information

Advanced Options

11 - Deodex files in your ROM


12 - Add task killer tweak for speed (stock ROM only)
13 - Add /data/app functionality
14 - Add Nano text editor + sysro/sysrw
15 - Add Bash (command shell)
16 - Add Apps2SD
17 - Add /etc/init.d scripts support (busybox run-parts)
18 - Add custom boot animation functionality
19 - Porting tools (experimental)
20 - Tools for boot image (unpack/re-pack/etc.)
21 - Unpack data.img
22 - Sign APK or ZIP file(s)
23 - Convert update-script or updater-script
24 - Miscellaneous optins / Plugin scripts

99. Build ROM from working folder


00. About/Update kitchen
x. Exit

Who it if for? It is for all :

 Those who are brand new to creating custom ROMs and want an easy place to start
learning.
 Those who just want to modify shipped ROMs or someone else's custom ROMs to their
liking.
 Those who are confused by all those scripts and complex commands required for
building and extracting.

So, are you one of the above? If your answer is Yes, then setup android kitchen on your PC. For
that, you will first need to have latest Java JDK and Cygwin installed on your PC. Download all
the necessary files from below before we get started.

 Download Java JDK 7u2 : Latest Java Development Kit at the time of writing. You can
download most recent version here.
 Download Cygwin_Packages.zip : Cygwin packages with setup file for offline
installation. The Cygwin tools are ports of the popular GNU development tools for
Microsoft Windows. For more info on Cygwin read here.
 Download Latest Android Kitchen Version 0.185 : Latest android kitchen at the time of
writing. You can look for a much recent version at dsixda's Github.
So, once you have got the required files. Follow the steps below carefully to setup Android
Kitchen on your PC. Want more details? Watch this video I did on installing Android Kitchen on
Windows PC.

1. Install latest Java JDK. It's pretty simple just follow the instructions and you are done.

2. Download and Extract Cygwin Packages and Android Kitchen on your desktop or somewhere
easy to access.

3. Once extracted go through kitchen_readme.txt and you will get an overview of how to setup
the kitchen.

4. To begin, install Cygwin first. So, run setup.exe from the extracted files and go through the
installation process.

5. Run Cygwin.exe once and it will create a folder with your username on /home/ directory.

6. Navigate to the folder where you installed Cygwin and go inside .../home// folder.

7. Copy the extracted kitchen folder to this location.

8. Once copied, rename it to kitchen (type all letters in lower case for Linux is case sensitive).

9. Run Cygwin.exe and navigate to kitchen folder. for that simply type the command cd kitchen
and press Enter.

10. Once inside kitchen folder, type ./menu to run android kitchen. Note: if you get a permission
denied error then type chmod +x menu or chmod 777 menu in Cygwin command line utility
first and then only run the command ./menu .

11. You will be presented with the Android Kitchen menu seen above. Use these options and get
started.

That's all. You have successfully installed android kitchen on your PC. Though this is originally
meant for only HTC based roms some of it's features will come handy for modding Samsung
Roms too. Please note that because of the same reason all the functions/features of Android
Kitchen may not work for you. Also, if you have any questions regarding dsixda's android
kitchen then read through the FAQs at the original thread post on xda-forums. Also, make sure
you thank dsixda for this awesome tool, if you find it handy.

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