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Adding a new device

For preserving/adding the official support of a device, It should qualify the below prerequisite:

  1. The device must be stable and should have full hardware and software compatibility.
  2. The device trees should not have any external dependency and all dependencies should be ready to be opened for public.
  3. The device trees should be made available to public repositories of PixysOS devices organization(s).
  4. The device trees should have all the commits with proper authorship and should be ready for random inspection.
  5. The device should be updated bi-weekly or monthly depending on the features update or monthly security releases.
  6. You must make use of all the opt-in features and device additions which can be found here.
  7. You should avoid making source changes through any scripts from device sources. and all the tracked repos must be from PixysOS ( contact core team members for exceptions)

Adding the device details to devices.json

The devices.json should be updated with all the needed informations as stated below. To get started open devices.json and fill up these keys accordingly.

key description type example needed
codename The codename of the device string X00TD yes
name The full name of the device string Zenfone Max Pro M1 yes
brand The brand of the device string Asus yes
fastboot Whether your device supports fastboot builds string true no
specs.battery Battery information of the device integer 5000 yes
specs.camera Camera information of the device string 13Mpx 5Mpx + 5Mpx yes
specs.cpu CPU information of the device string Snapdragon 636 yes
specs.display Display information of the device string IPS 5.99" 1080p yes
specs.ram RAM of the device string 3/4GB LPDDR4X yes
supported_bases[].name Name of base the device supports string eleven yes
supported_bases[].xda_thread XDA thread URL of base the device supports string https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=4109811 no
supported_bases[].supported_edition Supported build types (thirteen only supports gapps) string gapps yes
status The status to reflect of website string beta no

After adding the details you may need to verify if the JSON is syntactically correct or not. To do so copy the entire devices.json with your changes and paste it here, It will check and tell you if it is correct or suggest changes to make it correct.

How to push?

After adding all the device changes, Check if you want to make any changes in teams.json if yes, refer to this section Alternatively, proceed to theHow to push? guide.