[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] nobleskill:
Just a small question indie, if I may....

9.1 had ad free removed and one of your groupies mentioned ads being included in the new ROMs moving forward for revenue raising. Is this correct? Just a fact checking mission more than anything as I will just install it or something similar but .. always better to get the news from the ones making it rather than from those scavenging the scraps of the development process/machine.

:D

cheers in advance and I must say that, save for some minor bugs that annoy more than inconvenience, this reworking of Samsung/Googles code and rolling in of the various tweaks and apps isn't too shabby at all. Thank you for taking the time to gather all the various works done by the developers here and compiling it. Would take forever to put all the various peoples work together as an end user so kudos and extra thank you for saving me the time/effort of setting up a box to do it all with! haha don't miss it one bit I tell you! Honestly wouldn't even attempt the set up these days as ime simly doesn't allow for such projects with Uni and everything else..

Nobleskill

EDIT: oh yeah.. just a suggestion from a average joe user too.. If you have added ads in perhaps some words on what/when and where these ads will be and just an acknowledgment and disclosure of this change in the change log (I see the adfree removal there but the way the groupie was speaking it was like you had injected ads over the top of the usual ones so the revenue funnels back to.. well.. you I'm guessing/.

Is this a standard thing these days or? Honestly the addition of them is annoying but understandable in a way.. but sneaking them in without an official word on the matter is, IMO, bad form. You may not care about my opinions on it, granted, and the groupies are no doubt scanning their scripts for some scathing burn to lay down on me, albeit broken and disjointed in syntax, but I really do feel like it undermines your integrity and hard work.. Assuming the info they stated was accurate of course. Both the addition of the ads and also the info only being known due to a subordinate letting it slip during an attempt to shut down a discussion from another user asking what was up..

Really.. if you expect donation (I am sorry you only got 3 last release but it was more or less stated that the 9.1, same groupie I believe, update was super minor and the next full version number would be released soon. Perhaps this one will get more although if this is true regarding the adds I guess you don't really need donations anymore huh?) but at the end of the day you must understand they (donations) will come from respect and you gain that respect by being transparent in the commercial side of the ROM and respecting we users as not all idiots or even laymen.

I am poor student these days (mature aged and therefor stretched financially beyond reason) but I have donated to 3 of the last 4 developers whose ROMs i used..

Then again when I asked genuine questions in those threads I didn't get ignored and then attacked (poorly but still) for pointing out that the "read the guide" type no brainers got answered and drawn out ad nauseum while a real technical question got just ignored for several hours.. Speaks volumes to the skill sets of those trolling here but I digress and this is perhaps outside your control I guess...

I have derailed a bit but any words from yourself would be appreciated.

Nobleskill​