MysticGSI/mysticgsi
A tool to build a Generic System Image from (almost) any stock firmware
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A tool to build a GSI (Generic System Image) from stock Android firmware. Supported firmware: Partitions can be ext4, EROFS or F2FS. This project requires Python 3.10+. On macOS, install Homebrew and Xcode Command Line Tools first. Install Python 3 and Git if you haven't already. Make sure both are added to PATH. We recommend using WinGet: On macOS, Debian/Ubuntu, Arch, Fedora, openSUSE and Windows, the script installs system packages and creates .venv. On NixOS, it checks the development shell. Native image tools and the Apktool JAR are bundled with the repository. Swap requirements.txt for requirements-dev.txt if you want the dev tools. The bundled Apktool JAR needs Java; native image tools are under tools/bin//. macOS Ubuntu / Debian Arch Fedora and others (RHEL, etc) openSUSE (Tumbleweed, Leap) Python is versioned on openSUSE (python313, python313-base); the python3 names resolve to whichever version is current. python3 -m venv already bundles pip, so…
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What this repository does
A tool to build a Generic System Image from (almost) any stock firmware
Repository facts
- Owner
- MysticGSI
- Primary language
- Shell
- Stars
- 192
- Forks
- 60
- Open issues + pull requests
- 1
- License
- Apache-2.0
- Archived
- No
- Default branch
- main
- Created
- 2026-09-25T19:23:18.000Z
- Last push
- 2026-09-29T19:30:34.000Z
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