Add gapps to custom rom?

Question

I am really new to rom development, however i managed to build a custom rom for galaxy nexus. I obviously dont have gapps.

I am wondering how can i incorporate gapps in the build without having to flash a .zip file?

The apps are not open source and they are prebuilt apk.

Answer 1

Find the APK files for the Google apps that you would like to include. Copy each one under the directory /system/app/ and chmod 644 (change permissions to rwrr). Recompile your ROM and flash it as you'd like.

Answer 2

goto https://github.com/opengapps and in opengapps repo follow the instruction.. there will be a common makefile to initiate the build then you have to add its path to your romname_device.mk

Answer 3

You can use micro g project for using google services in custom ROMs. For example in Replicant ROM microg is used. Micro g has multiple tools such as location services , appstore and etc.