aosp-devs.org

The March 2026 Meetup

18^th March 2026

Talk 1: Acceleration x AOSP: Slashing build times without migration

AOSP development often involves long wait times and “variant explosion” across different hardware targets. This talk shows how to use process-level caching and distributed execution to cut two-hour builds down to twenty minutes without needing to touch your Soong or Ninja scripts.

Peleg Rand, Incredibuild

Discussion: the state of Embedded Android

A round table discussion about Embedded Android: i.e. Android built into devices that are beyond the profiles that Google support (Phones, Tablets, TVs, Wearables, Automotive)

The January 2026 Meetup

28^th January 2026

Introduction

Talk 1: Keeping Android up to date when the OEM fails to

The Advantech TPC-107W only supports Android 10 without secure boot. This talk shows how running the latest software was achieved without any help from Advantech and which challenges had to be overcome. It also briefly goes into why this was done and why you might want to do the same

Michael Zimmermann, 7/LAB

Talk 2: Debugging Android OS at Scale: AI-Powered Log Analysis

AOSP builders spend hours manually correlating events across logcat, dmesg, and bugreports to debug system issues. logcat.ai uses AI to automate this, performing multi-step root cause investigations through autonomous “deep research” that follows leads step-by-step. We’re making enterprise-grade debugging accessible to individual developers and open-source projects through our OSS program at logcat.ai/oss

Varun Chitre, logcat.ai

The September 2025 Meetup

17^th September 2025

Talk 1: Mastering SELinux in AOSP: From Frustration to Control

SELinux is often seen as a blocker when working with AOSP — especially when “avc: denied” messages get in the way. But when understood and managed properly, SEPolicy becomes a powerful tool to harden and structure your system. In this talk, you’ll learn:

Why SELinux is critical to Android security
How to manage and maintain SEPolicy in real AOSP projects
Proven techniques to debug and fix policy issues

Daniel Fages

The July 2025 Meetup

16^th July 2025

Talk 1: Writing Android system apps

Normal apps are limited by the constraints of their sandbox. System apps, on the other hand, can escape the sandbox to varying extents. In this talk, I explain the various levels of system app and how to build them in AOSP

Chris Simmonds

The March 2025 Meetup

19^th March 2025

Talk 1: Using Vendor APEX in AOSP

Vendor APEX modules allow developers to package entire feature implementations, such as the WiFi HAL, into a single, self-contained unit. The advantages are faster iteration, simplified testing, easier debugging, and modular updates.

Renjith Rajagopal

Talk 2: What to expect in Android 16

Android 16 is early this year, in Q2 in fact. Apart from the release schedule, what else is new? Here is a summary of the things that we can expect.

Mishaal Rahman

The January 2025 Meetup

29^th January 2025

Talk 1: Bugreport is your friend

Using the bugreport command a lot of issues ranging from audio mixing, screen flicker, and issues regarding Car power policies can be resolved effectively. In this talk I would like to highlight the information from the bugreport that could help resolve various issues

Ramalinga Prasad Tadapalli

Talk 2: Exploring Android Kiosk Variants

Defining requirements for restricted Android UI

Igor Kalkov-Streitz, Emteria

The November 2024 Meetup

20^th November 2024

Talk 1: The AOSP community and aosp-devs.org

We launched aosp-devs.org at the start of November. Here, Chris Simmonds talks about the genesis of the group, its aims and achievements so far

Chris Simmonds

The September 2024 Meetup

25^th September 2024

Talk 1: The COVESA AOSP SDK

Through the Automotive AOSP App Framework Standardization Expert Group, members of COVESA are working on an SDK that provides a set of libraries which allow third-party applications to access some automotive features in a way that is independent of manufacturer and model

Daniele Bonaldo, Snapp Automotive

Talk 2: Feedback from OSS and Linux Plumbers Conference in Vienna

Last week there were two important conferences: the Open Source Summit Europe (OSSE) and Linux Plumbers Conference (LPC), both taking place in the city of Vienna. There were a lot of AOSP developers there and many talks on AOSP topics. Here, I will give an overview of the topics presented and give you a flavor of some of the conversations that went on in the hallways in between

Chris Simmonds, 2net

The July 2024 Meetup

17^th July 2024

Introduction

Talk 1: AOSP Development Environment best practices, tips, and tricks

Let us talk about tools we use for AOSP development. In this presentation we will focus on using Visual Studio Code and do some live demos

Roman Illarionov and Viktor Mukha, Paradoxcat

Talk 2: AAOS on Raspberry Pi: an on-going project

An update on where we are with this project

Chris Simmonds

The May 2024 Meetup

22^nd May 2024

Introduction

Talk 1: Introducing AOSP Meetup Projects

Chris Simmonds

Talk 2: Automotive AOSP Ecosystem: challenges and opportunities for App Developers

In the last few years we’ve seen an increasing adoption from Automotive OEMs of Android based In-Vehicle Infotainment (IVI) platforms. While there are differences between platforms running with and without Google Automotive Services (GAS), the majority of apps can actually be built once and run anywhere, which is a paradigm shift for the industry. We’ll discuss the different categories of automotive apps and what is being done at COVESA to avoid ecosystem fragmentation.

José Freitas, Faurecia Aptoide

Talk 3: You Can’t Escape the Past: How early design decisions continue to influence Android today

Chet Haase talks about the team that built the Android operating system and why they chose to do certain things certain ways: the graphics stack, security model, the app programming language … these are things that affect us every day

Chet Haase

The March 2024 Meetup

20^th March 2024

Introduction

Talk 1: Android Fragmentation in the Automotive Industry

Android fragmentation is becoming a real issue in the automotive industry. What is it and what can we do to prevent it?

Juhani Lehtimäki, Snapp Automotive

Talk 2: What to expect in Android 15

While the source code for this year’s Android 15 ‘Vanilla Ice Cream’ release won’t be made public before early September (estimated), there’s a lot we can glean about this release from Google’s current developer previews, AOSP code changes, and documentation. Here’s a summary of what to expect

Mishaal Rahman

The January 2024 Meetup

24^th January 2024

Talk 1: SELinux in Android

How it works and how it’s used to make Android more secure

Alan Stokes, Google

Talk 2: aminilog – AOSP styled logging macros for NDK projects

Stefan Lengfeld, inovex

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The November 2023 Meetup

15 ^thNovember 2023

Introduction

Talk 1: Working with custom Android devices

In this session you will learn the most important parts of working on custom devices. We will cover things like developers boards, board support packages, AOSP builds, firmware updates, and much more

Erik Hellman

Talk 2: Adventures with Systrace - measure and investigate the glass to glass latency in Android

What is the glass to glass latency in Android? This means how much delay is between the camera, taking a picture, and the screen, to display the picture again. This presentation is a technical tour through the Android graphics system and hardware. From the measurement setup, based on cables, LEDs, photodiodes and an oscilloscope, to camera sensors and the rolling shutter effect, to displays and refresh rates, to surfaceflinger and vsyncs, and last but not least to the ultimate tool to debug most of your performance issues, to Android’s systrace

Stefan Lengfeld, inovex

Q & A

Following the two talks at the meetup there was a Q & A session that covered topics from the talks and also other (related) topics