whistlestop/CM7KF — Issue #2: Apps
Author: IngCr3at1on
Created: 2012-01-15 08:10:14+00:00
State: open

So my XDA account (that I almost never use) doesn't have enough posts to post on a dev board and I'm lazy. Because of that I'm opening this as an issue.

Looks like I'm not the only one that's been considering removing apps from the build (just I've been considering it on the build level lol)...

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1441873

I'd like to remove several apps, not everything that others are removing (because some can be beneficial for easy TS or may be useful w/ headsets or if/when bluetooth is patched). The following is my proposed list:

Camera
CMStats
CMUpdateNotify
MMS
RomManager
Protips
VoiceDialer

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The following are apps that others would probably remove but I am considering leaving for the listed reasons:

Browser (most people I believe are using silk; however if anyone decides to use voice search w/ a headset mic it will FC w/out this).
Contacts (easier contact navigation than other menus and required for phone.apk to functions)
Phone (can be used to access hidden menus [I'm not entirely certain of the presence of hidden menus on the KF but good to keep the ability for this I think, thoughts?])
Sound Recorder (can be used w/ a headset mic)

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It's an easy removal but it would require forking the cyanogenmod vendor directory (which I'm more than willing to do) if doing that though I wonder if we couldn't break this repo into 2 (as separate entries) to pull everything from a repo manifest for syncing (again I would do this).

I'm considering doing the above anyway but I'm curious what yours or anyone else' thoughts may be.