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.

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

Feature wait_for_prop in rc files: 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