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• 2026-07: June Newsletter

  Welcome to the eighteenth aosp-devs newsletter, keeping you up to date with things happening in the AOSP developer community.

  Three days too late. But at least in the northern hemisphere, it’s summertime. So it is time to relax and take a break.

• 2026-05: May Newsletter

  Welcome to the seventeenth aosp-devs newsletter, keeping you up to date with things happening in the AOSP developer community.

  Just a bit … two days too late. But I would say it was worth the wait. May was the month of AI for AOSP. Read on!

• 2026-05: April Newsletter

  Welcome to the sixteenth aosp-devs newsletter, keeping you up to date with things happening in the AOSP developer community.

  Just four days too late. New record?

• 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.

• 2026-03: March Newsletter

  Welcome to the fifteenth aosp-devs newsletter, keeping you up to date with things happening in the AOSP developer community.

  Just two days too late to avoid the April Fools’ Day.

• 2026-03: February Newsletter

  Welcome to the fourteenth aosp-devs newsletter, keeping you up to date with things happening in the AOSP developer community.

  We are back to normal, 6 days too late without excuses.

• 2026-01: January Newsletter

  Welcome to the thirteenth aosp-devs newsletter, keeping you up to date with things happening in the AOSP developer community.

  It’s not too late. Actually, it’s quite timely, since on the weekend there was FOSDEM fulltime.

• 2025-12: December Newsletter

  Welcome to the twelfth aosp-devs newsletter, keeping you up to date with things happening in the AOSP developer community.

  Again, too late. But right on time to wish everyone a happy new year.

• 2025-12: November Newsletter

  Welcome to the eleventh aosp-devs newsletter, keeping you up to date with things happening in the AOSP developer community.

  New record: 6 days too late, but … we are busy organizing the devroom at FOSDEM’26.

• 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.

• 2025-10: October Newsletter

  Welcome to the tenth aosp-devs newsletter, keeping you up to date with things happening in the AOSP developer community.

  Since the newsletter is not on-time (again), it misses halloweeeeeeen.

• 2025-10: September Newsletter

  Welcome to the ninth aosp-devs newsletter, keeping you up to date with things happening in the AOSP developer community. September started slowly, but picked up speed with events and news to the end.

  Nevertheless, the newsletter is late, late, late … and late.

• 2025-08: August Newsletter

  Welcome to the eighth aosp-devs newsletter, keeping you up to date with things happening in the AOSP developer community.

  And … again three days too late. Who would have thought that?

• 2025-07: July Newsletter

  Welcome to the seventh aosp-devs newsletter, keeping you up to date with things happening in the AOSP developer community.

  It’s already August and summer time in the northern hemisphere. So vacation time for some people and therefore no excuse to release the newsletter on time. Again it’s two days too late. Enjoy.

• 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

• 2025-07: June Newsletter

  Welcome to the sixth aosp-devs newsletter, keeping you up to date with things happening in the AOSP developer community.

  The tradition continues, again and again. The June newsletter is released two days too late.

• 2025-05: May Newsletter

  Welcome to the fifth aosp-devs newsletter, keeping you up to date with things happening in the AOSP developer community.

  The tradition continues. The May newsletter is released again two days too late.

• 2025-05: April Newsletter

  Welcome to the fourth aosp-devs newsletter, keeping you up to date with things happening in the AOSP developer community.

  It may be becoming a tradition that the newsletter is released a bit later, rather than at the end of the month. :-)

• 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

• 2025-03: March Newsletter

  Welcome to the third aosp-devs newsletter, keeping you up to date with things happening in the AOSP developer community.

• 2025-03: February Newsletter

  Welcome to the second aosp-devs newsletter, keeping you up to date with things happening in the AOSP developer community.

  Perhaps the most important thing to mention is that we held our first AOSP devroom at FOSDEM. We believe it was a great success! The recordings are now available on our new YouTube channel: @aosp-devs. Enjoy watching!

• 2025-01: January Newsletter

  Welcome to the first aosp-devs newsletter, keeping you up to date with things happening in the AOSP developer community.