FOSDEM'26 is my grand premiere as a speaker at the conference.
I presented "Pixel on life-support, upgrading from Android 12 to Android 16", a talk on the relevance of custom ROMs (in 2026 still...) and a quick recap of my journey upgrading my Pixel 4a all the way up to …
My first Android 16 QPR1 official release is finally here : introducing Evolution X 11.5.2 !
I touched on the QPR1 situation to explain why this first Quarterly Platform Release took so long to be integrated in custom ROMs - Evolution X not being at fault here - and I am pleased …
UPDATE 2025-12-24
Updated all Android 16 builds to include performance improvements.
ORIGINAL 2025-12-22
The Android 16 release has been a peculiar one.
Google usually releases the source code of the latest version of its mobile operation system to the Android Open-Source Project (AOSP) repositories : this process is what allows the …
As I recently became the official maintainer at Evolution X project for the Pixel 4a, 4a 5G and Pixel 5, the software updates I provide for these devices are now built and released through the CI/CD infrastructure of the project.
Pace of the releases has slowed down recently because …
"Rooting is the process by which users of Android devices can attain privileged control (known as root access) over various subsystems of the device, usually smartphones and tablets. Because Android is based on a modified version of the Linux kernel, rooting an Android device gives …
If you followed my recent posts, you know I have been interesting by Android custom ROMs lately.
Not only as a user, effectively modifying my main daily phone to run Android 16 (it was released six years ago and abandoned on Android 12), but also as an Android apprentice developer …
I posted "Pixel 5, Sweet 16" a few days ago to announce the release of Android 16 by way of my custom ROM of choice, Evolution X.
It may have gone unnoticed, but there was no such release for Pixel 4a at the time.
Even though I was able to …
UPDATE 2025-11-13
Updated all Android 16 builds to Evolution X 11.4.
These are stopgap Unofficial builds to mitigate the delay due to the ongoing rework of Evolution X Official build infrastructure.
UPDATE 2025-09-27
Added links to Evolution X 11 builds, Android 16 update, for the Pixel 4a. At long …