aosp-devs.org 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. :-)
New on LinkedIn
aosp-devs has a LinkedIn account now. See aosp-devs and follow if you are interested.
Updates to the AOSP development workflow by Google
Wondering if you are affected by the recent changes made by Google to the way it develops AOSP? We have published an explainer that (hopefully) makes everything clear: What Recent Android Changes Mean for AOSP and Open Source
For context, here is the announcement on source.android.com: source.android.com: FAQ - android-latest-release
TL;DR: AOSP remains open source and releases should increase in frequency
Notes from Discord
Feature wait_for_prop
in rc files:
Discussion on Discord
SELinux pain: Discussion on Discord
RIL/GSM/LTE/Modem talk in HAL: Discussion on Discord
Booting a standard Linux rootfs on the Android kernel. Mostly possible! Discussion on Discord
persistent flag in the manifest and foreground service to implement a long running service, like a MQTT client. Discussion on Discord
There is a survey by the Londroid Meetup group regarding the recent AOSP development change. Direct link and Discussion on Discord
Some discussion about audio routing in audioflinger: Discussion on Discord
AAOS (Android Automotive Operating System) on the Google Pixel Tablet: Discussion on Discord
Upcoming Events
Embedded Recipes (in-person)
- Link: https://embedded-recipes.org/2025/
- Date: May 14-16th 2025
- Location: Nice, France
Linaro Connect (in-person)
- Link: https://www.linaro.org/connect/
- Date: Wednesday 14 May - Friday 16 May 2025
- Location: Lisbon, Portugal
AOSP and AAOS May Meetup (online)
- Link: The AOSP and AAOS May Meetup
- Date and time: Wednesday, May 21, 2025 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM CEST (UTC+2)
- Location: online/jitsi
Open Source Summit Europe / Embedded Linux Conference Europe (in-person)
- Link: Open Source Summit Europe
- Link: Embedded Linux Conference
- Date: 25-27 August 2025
- Call for Papers: Closed
- Location: Amsterdam, Netherlands
DroidCon Berlin (in-person)
- Link: droidconberlin
- Date: September, 24th – 26th
- Call for Papers: Announcement until 01 July 2025
- Location: Berlin, Germany