[Guide]Complete Android ROM development and essential tutorials

Hi,
If you willing to learn to build custom ROM then you should have following things

• Basic Knowledge about handling Command Promt
• Basic Windows software knowledge
• PC with all tools properly installed
• And a mobile with bootloader unlocked

This tutorial is for "Windows OS (Windows 7 x64 in my case)" And Android 2.3+ OS (2.3.4 GingerBread in my case).
But Dxda Kitchen also supports Ubuntu/Linux and also can support Ice cream sandwich

In this whole post you will learn How To -

• Make custom ROM - Done
• Unpack .ftf packages - Done
• Use Cygwin - Done
• Setup Android Kitchen - Done
• Edit .apk files - Done
• Edit .jar files - Done
• Edit .9.png files - Done
• Rooting System - Done
• Writing scripts
• Making flashable zips - Done
• Porting apk software
• A2SD Techs - Dropped ( Outdated now )
• Editing build.prop - Done
• Editing init.d tweaks
• Information of every customizable file
• Making Hosts
• apn configs
• editing boot.img
• converting png to rle or vice versa
• Writing updater-script
• Making Aroma Installer
• How to set default Settings after ROM installations
• more and more things to arrive

Tools Required : (Update them manually and report me dead links please)

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Download the tools as per your need.Link is given in the name itself below....

• Flashtool - For Flashing stock ROM if anything goes wrong (Download link in the installation tab of website)
• apktool Direct Download- for editing apk files and jar files (you can use APK manager but apktool is simpler)
• Cywign Direct Download- Linus Terminal For Windows
• ROM Kitchen (ROM Development Tool) Direct Download- For Cooking custom ROM + boot.img related tools - to edit boot.img files (Its inside the ROM Kitchen Files, Please update this Kitchen to latest version its out dated now,for this use inbuilt updater of kitchen)
• Official Link to kitchen dxda Kitchen - Official Thread and Github source Please refer FAQ on official thread for Kitchen related problems
• ftf-extractor Direct Download- It will extract system files from the ftf package which you will use to make your ROM
• fastboot Direct Download- For flashing kernel to your device
• DoomLords Easy Root Kit v4 Direct Download- To Root Stock/Custom ROM
• Demo META-INF Folder Direct Download- For Making Flashable zip files
• DroidExplorer - For advance tools regarding real time phone memory handling through windows.
• Flashable Zip Demo Direct Download- For those who want to just apply some stuffs through CWM
• Customized build.prop demo - Download Build.prop
• Post #9 download link - All In One Tweaker By Nero Young