Blog posts

• 2026-04: The state of AOSP in 2026

  April 2026

  Since March 2025 Google have made quite a few changes to the way that AOSP is developed and released to the world. In this blog post I want to summarise those changes and assess their impact.

• 2025-11: The year in review

  Just over one year ago in November 2024 aosp-devs.org launched with the mission of creating a community for AOSP developers. Now is a good time to look back and review what we have achieved and what we would like to do next.

• 2025-07: Pixel support dropped from Android 16: what it means for the AOSP developer community

  Dropping Pixel support from Android 16 was a surprise. While the AOSP code base is still sufficient to build devices for new hardware, even without support from Google, it makes it harder because there is less reference code to show how the lower layers of the operating system are intended to work. Call to action: we can fill the gap by sharing the device knowledge that we have. That is exactly what we at aosp-devs.org are here for

• 2025-04: What Recent Android Changes Mean for AOSP and Open Source

  There has been a lot of debate about the recent changes in the way that AOSP is developed, and whether that will affect our ability to develop independent, open source versions of Android.

  TL;DR: AOSP remains open source and releases should increase in frequency

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