[brickablesmile]

In breaking news, Saurik brings the Cydia platform to Android.

Right now, all we have is Winterboard, but with that theme engine, any root user can have themes and icon packs unique to say, CyanogenMod/TMobile Theme Engine, on a phone without the ROM.

Having seen how the iOS can be extended with Cydia, I, for one, am very excited about the possibilities that Cydia Substrate can bring.

This is unfortunately, from what I can gather, not the app store itself. It seems the current installer and payment model are parts of an alternative app store for jailbroken idevices. This is currently intended as a tool for developers to build code modifications to other apps. No source code needed - be it Sense or TouchWiz.

Cydia Substrate is sadly, experimental, and, stunningly, similar to the Xposed Framework, however unintentional.

Mobilism has a repo somewhere in the jailbreak zone. Having never used this myself, I'm curious to know, what tweaks can be found there? And...what are the odds that some of those tweaks can be applied to Android?

References

1. viewtopic.php?f=1274&t=541354&hilit=cydia
2. http://techcrunch.com/2013/05/14/cydia- ... n-android/
3. http://www.cydiasubstrate.com/id/34058d37-3198-414f-a696-73e97e0a80db/
4. http://www.redmondpie.com/cydia-substra ... edmond+Pie)

I have never got it about what is this CyanogenMod and Cydia Mod? Could you give me detailed info about it?

[diji1]

I have never got it about what is this CyanogenMod and Cydia Mod? Could you give me detailed info about it?

CyanogenMod is a popular alternative version of Android that has many features that AOSP (or "Google Android") does not have. Installing it means completely replacing
your phones exisitng firmware.

Cydia Substrate is an addition that the user can add to various Android versions - including AOSP and CyanogenMod - which allows "on-the-fly" changes to the device firmware. Whilst this has only recently been released on Android there is another similar addition known as Xposed which does the same thing and is much more popular (meaning many different things you can add to your firmware).

So why do people like Xposed: it allows changes to be made on a system level without flashing your phoines firmware. This means you can add features to many different ROMS without flashing your device.

You can find out more by visiting xda-developers.com and searching for your device.

If you choose to use different firmware or either of these frameworks discussed here be sure to read the relevant documentakion as it is possible to destroy your device by using these applications - although don't let this stop you if your interested, just be careful.