Install Google Apps on AOSP Build

Question

I have installed android-6.0.1_r72 AOSP Rom on a Nexus 5 device. The rom doesn\'t come with Google Apps.

I\'ve tried to install from the follow

Answer 1

andDevW's answer covers the details.

Adding another way to do the second step. Instead of FLASHing FACTORY IMAGE AND PULL GENUINE GOOGLE APK,

you can use simg2img to convert the system.img file into a mountable volume

1. Use simg2img to convert your .img file into .raw file

simg2img /home//../aosp/../out/system.img system.raw

2. mount the raw file as an ext4 external file system volume

sudo mount -t ext4 -o loop system.raw /system

you will be able to navigate your system.raw image once mounted and you can access /priv-app and other directories to get the apks you need, in the mounted volume at /system.

You can use this to get apks from system.img in factory image releases from Google.