[Nexus 7 Android Development] zephiK:
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Chroma is a lightweight AOSP ROM focused on battery, performance and stability.

The philosophy of Chroma is to stay relatively close to Google's stock Lollipop with the additions of essential features that should have been included with stock Lollipop.

Features:

Franco Kernel

Layers 2.1 support

Silent mode (Settings > Sound & notifications > Interruptions)

Native LED notifications (solid, limited to RGB colors)

Status Bar Customization:

Battery Style (Icon Portrait/Landscape, Circle, Text, Hide) and Battery Percentage

Clock & Date (Show/Hide, Color, Alignment, AM/PM, Show/Hide Date, Date Style, Date Format)

Brightness Control (long press status bar to change brightness)

Double-tap status bar to turn screen off

Show/hide notification count

Quick pull-down on left/right side to pull down tiles

Network traffic

Pressing on clock or date on status bar opens up Clock, Calendar

Tile customizations (LTE, screenshot, sync, heads up, expanded desktop, and more)

Status bar weather

Enlarge 1st row, show 4 tiles per row, show/hide brightness slider

Heads up notifications

Show/hide brightness slider

Advanced location tile

Navigation bar customization

Rearrange navigation bar to your liking

Navigation bar height (48/44/40/36/32/28/24/20/0dp)

Navigation button tint

Show/hide arrow keys while typing

Kill app back button

Double tap navigation bar to sleep

Navigation ring customization

Clear all recents button (enable/disable) and location (top left, top right, top center, bottom left, bottom right, bottom center)

Lock screen customization

Power menu customization (power off, reboot, screenshot, airplane mode)

Advanced Reboot (reboot/soft reboot/recovery/bootloader)

Volume rocker customization:

Wake device with volume keys when screen off

Long press volume up/down keys to skip track when screen off

Volume key adjustment sound (enable/disable)

Volume key cursor control

Other:

A large number of optimizations and memory leak fixes

Animated expandable volume panel

Long press recents to swap back to previous app

AOSP Gallery2 with material design

Prevent accidental wake (proximity sensor before waking screen)

... and more (see changelog)

Special thanks to:

People who have tipped/donated to me to support ongoing development

sykopompos for the proprietary vendor organization

franciscofranco for the kernel

boysetsfire for the wallpapers and boot animation

CyanogenMod as well as the open source community

Instructions

Pre-requisites: unlocked bootloader | latest TWRP recovery

1. Download ROM, Gapps and put it on the phone's internal storage.

2. Boot into TWRP recovery.

3. Coming from a different ROM? Perform a factory reset using TWRP. If you're upgrading from Chroma ROM, proceed to dirty flash (nandroid backup before flashing is a good idea)

4. Clean Installation: Flash ROM, GApps

....Dirty Flash: Flash ROM, no need to wipe

5. Reboot and enjoy.

Enjoy what I do? Want to show your appreciation? You can donate HERE.

Changelog: HERE

Download: (thanks to @GtrCraft for compiling!)

Grouper (2012 WiFi): Chroma 2015-06-22 | GApps

Tilapia (2012 3G): Chroma 2015-06-22

You must flash SuperSU otherwise you will not have root access.

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XDA:DevDB Information

Chroma, ROM for the Nexus 7

Contributors

zephiK

ROM OS Version: 5.1.x Lollipop

Version Information

Status: Stable

Created 2015-04-06

Last Updated 2015-06-22