Introduction

Earlier, Cirrus CI gave the ROM Builders community servers for OSS developement of Android builds, as these builds need a lot of resources that most people don't have lying around, like double digit RAM requirements (GB), triple digit storage requirements (GB), a capable processor, a specific Linux environment, etc.

Cirrus CI has discontinued ROM Builders around Nov 2023. Now, crave.io is providing Build Servers with a pretty similar Queue System. It is also a lot more flexible as it allows custom commands, has Docker image support, allows entering into build storage without starting a build, etc.

This guide attempts to help new and old users with Android development and using crave.io through Devspace CLI and alternatively, Github Actions.

Getting an account

Please request an account here since self-signup is disabled.

Also check out the official discord!

General Steps

Using Crave.io is a little bit different from using a normal server, mainly because it has a queue system. This wiki expands upon the following process in a step by step manner: