CyanogenMod and its Influence on Android

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This chapter explores the impact of CyanogenMod on the Android community, discussing its customizable features, the 'Cyanogate' incident with Google, and the adoption of CyanogenMod's ideas by Google in future Android updates. It also touches on the recruitment of modders by Samsung and Stephanie's collaboration with Carl Pay to create a limited edition CyanogenMod phone. Funding and the formation of Cyanogen Inc. are also mentioned.

Today we've got another special episode! Don't worry, there will be another regular episode on Friday. In today's episode David tries to find out what happened to Android ROMming? There was a time when flashing the latest nightly on your phone had an entire community built around it, but those days disappeared.. rather suddenly. What happened? We investigate.

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Rich Miner: https://twitter.com/richminer

Stefanie Kondik: https://twitter.com/cyanogen

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Rich Miner History of Android: https://bit.ly/richminerhistoryofandroid

ZTE article: https://bit.ly/ztetradeban

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