Paranoid Android, one of the bigger names in the ROM scene, is always up to something cool and innovative. While some ROMs focus on speed, stability, or a close-to-AOSP feel, PA focuses on giving you new ways to use your phone with features like PIE navigation and HALO. The PA team is always trying to push the envelope. As any other ROM cooker, they have merged the new source code for Android 4.3 and gotten to work on some new stuff.
Android 4.3 dropped on the 24th of July and since then, ROM makers everywhere have been hard at work porting to phones and fixing bugs. Paranoid Android wasn’t one to screw around. As with any new version of Android, certain ROM features broke and needed to be fixed.
Paranoid Android is now at version 3.95 and here is what has changed in their most recent build:
While Paranoid Android continues to build and innovate on Android 4.3, there have been talks about the future of PA. Earlier in July, they made a post on Google+ about what will come when the next big iteration of Android drops. Here is what they said:
We have big plans for Android-next. It will take a while but eventually it will mean that we will stop making ROMs and start worrying about a professional firmware, something that in this writer’s mind no one in the ROM scene has achieved including us. It should be a clear split from the usual hacky/nerdy/read-every-post-on-XDA-before-you-understand madness. It will be a split from throwing a million features that no one ever asked for on peoples shoulders at the expense of visual refinement intuition and stability.
A more detailed announcement will follow at some point.
- PA
This seems to be a new trend in the Android scene. CyanogenMod recently announced their Nemesis program, which started with Focal, their very own camera app. Eventually, I think we will see both CM and PA release their own professionally-polished versions of Android, possibly similar to OEM skins.
Instead of this “nerdy madness” they are talking about, it will be a much more professional release that I would compare to something like what Canonical does with Ubuntu. Instead of being a post on a forum board, I can see them having official press releases that non-tech people have at least heard of (though many non-tech people still have no idea that computers run anything besides “Windows” and “Apple”).
Personally, I think this is an exciting era for the Android scene. We will still have everyday ROMs but we will also have higher-end professional ROMs for our devices. I think Paranoid Android will really impress us with what they can do.
Android 4.3 dropped on the 24th of July and since then, ROM makers everywhere have been hard at work porting to phones and fixing bugs. Paranoid Android wasn’t one to screw around. As with any new version of Android, certain ROM features broke and needed to be fixed.
Paranoid Android is now at version 3.95 and here is what has changed in their most recent build:
- CellbroadcastReceiver fix
- JSS15J 2 second input freeze fix
- App Ops “retouched” to make privacy more usable
- Battery/clock and quicktoggles margins fixed
- Option to use 2 different tokens for encryption and locking for enhanced security (read more about it here)
- Fixed the problem of root sometimes failing (still watch out if you flash a custom kernel that breaks root)
- Added missing libs for TTS Franco Kernel now official for maguro, toro, and toroplus
- Changes to GApps found here and here
- PA
We have big plans for Android-next. It will take a while but eventually it will mean that we will stop making ROMs and start worrying about a professional firmware, something that in this writer’s mind no one in the ROM scene has achieved including us. It should be a clear split from the usual hacky/nerdy/read-every-post-on-XDA-before-you-understand madness. It will be a split from throwing a million features that no one ever asked for on peoples shoulders at the expense of visual refinement intuition and stability.A more detailed announcement will follow at some point.
- PA
This seems to be a new trend in the Android scene. CyanogenMod recently announced their Nemesis program, which started with Focal, their very own camera app. Eventually, I think we will see both CM and PA release their own professionally-polished versions of Android, possibly similar to OEM skins.
Instead of this “nerdy madness” they are talking about, it will be a much more professional release that I would compare to something like what Canonical does with Ubuntu. Instead of being a post on a forum board, I can see them having official press releases that non-tech people have at least heard of (though many non-tech people still have no idea that computers run anything besides “Windows” and “Apple”).
Personally, I think this is an exciting era for the Android scene. We will still have everyday ROMs but we will also have higher-end professional ROMs for our devices. I think Paranoid Android will really impress us with what they can do.
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