{"id":3012,"date":"2014-07-30T17:15:16","date_gmt":"2014-07-30T09:15:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alfredivy.per.sg\/blogger\/?p=3012"},"modified":"2025-10-19T22:18:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T14:18:06","slug":"comparison-android-builds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/2014\/07\/comparison-android-builds\/","title":{"rendered":"A comparison of Android builds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was scratching my head over the differences of Paranoid Android versus Cyanogenmod build or ROM. \u00a0They both appear nearly the same. \u00a0Everything are nearly identical with AOSP \u00a0layout. \u00a0This unlike, say MIUI which has heavy skinning over the most features.<\/p>\n<p>Google provided a most interesting thread in Reddit. \u00a0A Redditor has compiled a series of infographics highlighting the differences between the common builds. AvatarROM, PAC-Man, MIUI, SlimBean, OmniROM, Carbon, Paranoid Android, AOKP and CM 10.2<\/p>\n<p>The aim was to see what the Xposed framework could offer against these builds. \u00a0Please these builds or ROMs are mainly for use with Nexus line of phones. \u00a0If you are using a legacy device like S2, some digging is required.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/Android\/comments\/1scznp\/quick_infographics_on_xposed_framework\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Reddit thread<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Note: ROM stands for Read Only Memory, this refers to hardware, a type of non-volatile memory that is the grandfather of the now common flash memory. \u00a0Since we\u00a0are talking about software here, so the nearest definition of software embedded into hardware is firmware. \u00a0Another generic term that can be used is build, which I very much prefer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was scratching my head over the differences of Paranoid Android versus Cyanogenmod build or ROM. \u00a0They both appear nearly the same. \u00a0Everything are nearly identical with AOSP \u00a0layout. \u00a0This unlike, say MIUI which has heavy skinning over the most&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222],"tags":[241],"class_list":["post-3012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-smartphones","tag-android"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3012"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6521,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3012\/revisions\/6521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}