NikGapps "elite" configs
Custom Google Apps packages built to match my crDroid builds — 17 merged config changes upstream at NikGapps.
A ROM build and its Google Apps package have to agree. Ship too much and you clobber the ROM’s own components or run out of space on a fixed system partition; ship too little and half of Play Services quietly fails.
NikGapps builds GApps packages from declarative config, so the fix
is to maintain configs that match the builds. Mine are published as the
“306bobby elite” variants — 20 pull requests into
nikgapps/config, 17 merged so far, going back to
the first crDroid redbull config in May 2024.
The work is mostly trimming: dropping Pixel Launcher where the ROM supplies its own, cutting package counts to fit, and keeping full/lite variants coherent as each Android release moves things around.