Android L Developer Preview Ported To The HTC One (M7)

Android L Developer Preview ported to the HTC One (M7)

BY Rajesh Pandey

Rajesh Pandey

Rajesh is a 26-year old freelance writer from Kolkata, India. He loves to tinker around with his Android devices and flash custom ROMs on them....

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Published 11 Jul 2014

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Google released the Developer Preview of Android L only for the Nexus 5 and Nexus 7 (2013) but developers managed to get it up and running on the Nexus 4 and Nexus 7 (2012) in no time as well. Joining this list today is HTC’s last year flagship — the One M7 — courtesy of some extremely talented developers over at XDA forums.

The build barely works though, with graphical issues rendering it almost useless and the first boot taking an eternity in itself. However, if you own an HTC One M7 and really want to try out Android L, this ROM is your only option.

The ROM is not really in a usable state right now but once the developers manage to fix the graphical issues, expect things to improve dramatically. Do make sure to keep an eye on this XDA thread to stay up to date with the latest progress of the build.

Hopefully, once the developers iron out most of the bugs from this ROM, expect it to be ported over to the HTC One M8 as well.