With the release of Android Marshmallow (android-6.0) in October 2015, OmniROM has officially begun nightly builds for our supported devices as of January 10th, 2016. The following devices have been included for nightly support:
Over the past few months our staff and contributors have been working diligently in order to deliver the best user experience that we can. At this point in time, we have confidence in the stability of our codebase, and as such 5.1.1 nightly releases based on Android Lollipop have begun! This initial roll out includes the following devices:
We will shortly be doing some important maintenance on the OmniROM gerrit, in order to support authentication after Google deprecates OpenID in the next week or so.
Not too long ago we let you know the progress on rolling out Lollipop on OmniROM, and the positive response was greatly appreciated. We are edging closer to nightlies for Lollipop, and figured now would be a good time to answer some common questions:
Having a project which is entirely community-driven and -led is a daunting task, and something we are all so excited to be a part of. It also means we have a variety of questions come in on a daily basis, from "Y U NO SUPPORT [INSERT OBSCURE DEVICE]?" and "How do I flash Gmail?" to "When is L coming out on Omni?" We love interacting with the community, but we also haven't done a great job of communicating where we're at with certain things, and that's something we'll be working on.
