Whois & Analysis for cyanogenmods.org

LineageOS also known as LineageOS Android Distribution and Lineage (/ˈlinēij/) is a free and open-source operating system for smartphones and tablet computers, based on the Android mobile platform.

It is the successor to the highly popular custom ROM CyanogenMod, from which it was forked in December 2016 when Cyanogen Inc. announced it was discontinuing development and shut down the infrastructure behind the project.

LineageOS was officially launched on December 24, 2016, with the source code available on GitHub.

Android is a mobile operating system developed by Google, based on the Linux kernel and designed primarily for touchscreen mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets.

Android's user interface is mainly based on direct manipulation, using touch gestures that loosely correspond to real-world actions, such as swiping, tapping and pinching, to manipulate on-screen objects, along with a virtual keyboard for text input.

In addition to touchscreen devices, Google has further developed Android TV for televisions, Android Auto for cars, and Android Wear for wrist watches, each with a specialized user interface.

Variants of Android are also used on notebooks, game consoles, digital cameras, and other electronics.

Team Win Recovery Project (TWRP), is an open-source software custom recovery image for Android-based devices.

It provides a touchscreen-enabled interface which allows users to install third-party firmware and backup the current system, which are often unsupported by stock recovery images.

It is, therefore, often installed when rooting Android devices.

Rooting is the process of allowing users of smartphones, tablets and other devices running the Android mobile operating system to attain privileged control (known as root access) over various Android subsystems.

As Android uses the Linux kernel, rooting an Android device gives similar access to administrative (superuser) permissions as on Linux or any other Unix-like operating system such as FreeBSD or OS X.

Google Camera is a camera application developed by Google for Android.

It was supported on Android 4.4 KitKat and higher versions of Android, but now it's only supported on Google's Nexus and Pixel Devices.

It was released on the Google Play Store on April 16, 2014.

It was removed from the Play Store on Feb 17, 2016.

Although unofficially, it is still available for all android devices by typing "Google Camera APK" into a search engine, such as Bing or Google.