To install any ROM through a custom recovery, you need to have an updater-script. It's basically a few lines of commands that tells your Android recovery what to do. These files are also widely used with Aroma Installer and other scripting engines, but of course everyone knows this already. However, a problem arises when you need to create your...
Android uses the Edify scripting language to apply updates in its recovery. Edify is the second generation of script used by Google, which replaced Amend few alongside Android 1.5 Cupcake update. You can read more about history of Android here.
Edify is used in updater-scripts, and it essentially consists of small text files with a set...
If you've ever flashed a custom ROM, you've probably noticed that your custom recovery reads some sort of script to format your system partition, make symlinks, and so on. This set of commands is known as Edify. Usually there are two parts of Edify: updater-script, which is a text file with instructions for recovery; and...
Those of us who use Linux on a day to day basis don't think twice about sinking our fingers into the system files that govern how our devices perform. For instance, I use an LG L9 and was quite comfortable playing around with the way my SD card was being mounted in order to improve...
