[Galaxy S III Android Development] JustArchi:
It took me a while but anyway I must tell you guys that we're making a step forward, or step backward. Some people will love it, some people will hate it. We're moving to OmniROM.

Let me tell you why.

CyanogenMod initially was a great idea and everybody loved the freedom of implementation, own changes and open source. At the first days CM really was the best thing ever implemented for many devices, to be honest for every device without clean android or "google edition" version. Everybody loved it, and everybody contributed.

After some time something "changed". Many of useful changes were not being implemented at all. CM has become something, which is trying to be stable at all cost, even if it's impossible to do so. Because of that we don't have 4.4 nightlies, we don't have many commits which were abandoned and we don't have many useful features. To be honest, CM is like the true clean android for many devices, which didn't get one.

This is where OmniROM has been born. OmniROM at the moment is the "initial CyanogenMod", with freedom of choice, functions, implementations and community. A few months ago we had two official cyanogenmod maintainers for i9300, codeworkx and xplodwild. As for now we have none. Xplodwild is contributing to OmniROM, while codeworkx is inactive. You can't blame them for their choices, you need to respect them and accept such situation.

The thing is, OmniROM was forked from CyanogenMod AOSP. As for now it has nearly all cyanogenmod functions and improvements, while having a bunch of other useful stuff, the stuff which we were porting with Cristiano for whole time. Example? Active Display. I swear to god we would NEVER see something like that in CM, and if we would, only in gerrit with status abandoned. I ask you, why. Why we need to spend our time with self-improving CM while we can jump to the better ground, to a ground with a bunch of commits from the start, to the ground with official maintainer for i9300, somebody who really cares about our device and works hard day and night to provide us with a better taste of android every day. Thanks [MENTION=2162789]XpLoDWilD[/MENTION].

First time I was very skeptical to this project. You know, everybody talks a lot on the beginning and then it all falls down. But no, not this time. I was looking very closely since last month on OmniROM and I can see a real potential, a potential which I would like to use and the potential, to which I would like to contribute.

To be honest with you guys. CyanogenMod is now a company. i9300 is like the top 2-3 device. I don't know what they (owners) think, but the lack of official maintainer for the top3 device hurts me very much. Even if we can discuss CyanogenMod vs. OmniROM, it's not the place and it's not the time. OmniROM wins, at least for i9300. And I'm going all way Omni now, until CyanogenMod somehow convinces me to rethink my decision. And even so I'm sure that [MENTION=2162789]XpLoDWilD[/MENTION] and many more happy developers will make sure that I'd never look back.

That's it guys. I'm going all way Omni now. I'm EOL'ing CM 11.0 branch now and moving ArchiDroid 2.X to version 2.3, based on OmniROM Android 4.4.

Experimental users may right now download 2.3-ALPHA branch and test it themselves. After some time (a few days I'd say) I'm going to merge this branch with current 2.X-E and move forward. If everything looks good, you'll see stable 2.3 version even this weekend.

Thank you for understanding, I hope that I didn't make you sad with such decision because to be honest, OmniROM wins in every aspect if we're talking about i9300. If you find any real reason for keeping CM, let me know. Until then, I'm all way Omni now. And I'll make my best to bring you even better ArchiDroid than now.

Stay tuned! :cool: