[Miscellaneous Android Development] imalif:
What is XOSP and how was it born?

XOSP basically which stands for the Xperia Open Source Project was a project originally created by me for the Galaxy S+ (my old device) and the project was created like 2 years ago when that time XOSP wasn't even existing. It was just S+ Reborn. The main idea was to create a custom minimal Xperia based ROM, by including the essential things which a user would normal use from a ROM.

The S+ Reborn became to be a big success because it was eventually ported on different Xperia Phones and some other Samsung devices and from there the XOSP project was founded. From the XOSP Project also the Reborn addons were created featuring with an Aroma Installer. I worked on the project for 2 years by trying always to improve it constantly, eventually for the fact that LP on my Galaxy S+ became to be quite buggy i decided to stop the development and for about half of year the project was left in stanby till i decided to bring it back again on the Zenfone 2 devices.

The project started growing again so with the Release 4 the project will be completely refactored to XOSP

Revisions and Releases

I've got a different type of releasing, i will not provide weekly builds but just let me show you how the revisions and release type works: The revisions refers like to a sort of Nightly thing i mean the changes included in the ROM are small not as a Release one. All the releases got 5 revisions. So the Release is something even bigger right? Hell yeah! When a new Release is released expect many improvements or new features

Based on CM 13.0

Enforcing Mode

Removed many unnecessary apps and stuff as well as CM ones

Xperia X inspired UI for Settings

StatusBar Clock font style

StatusBar Clock font size

Added StatusBar Date & style options

Added option for date style/position, left-right of clock

Xperia Z5 inspired LockScreen style

Xperia Fonts

Xperia Battery Text prototype

Time Contextual Headers

XOSP Universal dialog for Shutdown/Reboot and Dexopting Process

XOSPDelta

Stock Kernel

Snap Camera

ViPER Audio Engine

Theme Chooser

Xperia based Bootanimation

Custom Framework and SystemUI Xperia drawables

XOSPFileManager

Color Picker including also a unique flat palette of 8 selected colors

Carrier label/custom & change color

Slim custom Doze options

Xperia Z5 sounds

Xperia X Wallpapers

XOSPSetupWizard

Custom Materialized

Stock Browser is custom themed

Contacts is custom themed (Much more Xperia Style)

Dialer is custom themed (Much more Xperia Style)

Status bar logo

Navigation Bar ON/OFF

NavBar dimensions

SlimDim

HW Keys ON/OFF

SlimSeek Bar

Status bar Network Traffic indicator

RAM Bar in recents options

Toast Animations

Long Press back to kill in Development Settings

Ability to hide the Super SU status bar icon

Dashboard Columns

Dashboard double lines toggle

Double Tap to sleep anywhere on the lockscreen

On-the-go Mode

Double tap to sleep on navigation bar

SystemApp remover

Omni inbuilt SystemUI Screenrecording

SuperSU

Xperia Apps

Xperia Z5 Home app

Album App

Music (former WALKMAN)

PhotoAnalyzer

PhotoEditor

SemCalendar

SomcPodcast

Video

SemcClock

Xperia Keyboard (aka textinput-tng)

AudioRecorder (Material Version)

ClockWidgets

ClockWidgets (Black)

WallpaperPicker (For Xperia X custom wallpapers)

Weather App

Wheater Widget

Walkman Widget

WorldClockWidget

Credits

CyanogenMod for the source base

Sony and the Xperia community

Resurrection Remix Team

AICP Team

Malybru for the XOSP banner

Mihir Mistry for the XOSP logo

VPN

First time installing XOSP based to your Z6, or coming from another ROM?

Make sure your Bootloader is unlocked and you're running the latest TWRP

Download latest build,XOSPApps and GApps

Reboot recovery

Wipe data factory reset

Flash latest XOSP

Flash STOCK OpenGApps

Flash XOSPApps

Reboot

Upgrading from earlier release or revision of XOSP:

Reboot recovery

Flash latest XOSP

Flash GApps if necessary

Flash XOSPApps

Wipe cache and dalvik

Reboot

XOSP M 6.3

XOSPApps

Gapps - arm - 6.0 - nano/pico

Contributors

@DarkExistence, [MENTION=4222965]deadman96385[/MENTION], [MENTION=4797791]Prophentes[/MENTION]
[MENTION=406202]samar[/MENTION].v [MENTION=5947882]kenzukie[/MENTION] [MENTION=6698785]Darkstar085[/MENTION]

Source Code: https://github.com/XOSP-Project

ROM OS Version: 6.0.x Marshmallow

ROM Kernel: Linux 3.4.x

ROM Firmware Required: Latest TWRP Recovery

Based On: Cyanogenmod

-Android Development Porting Team