aosp-devs.org 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.

The libraries page

On the aosp-devs.org website we have a new page called: Library - The aosp-devs reference library. This is a list of useful presentations, blogs, books, etc, organized by topic - just like a library.

Have a look and we encourage you to add your own links and resources.

In person event at the Open Source Summit India

Some late heads up for an in-person event at the Open Source Summit India. There will be a Bootloops & Coffee: The Daily Grind of an AOSP Developer organized by Sumit Semwal and Amit Pundir.

New blog posts

On our own blog we have published a new blog post: Pixel support dropped from Android 16: what it means for the AOSP developer community

A nice success story by using perfetto.dev and insights into the GC in Android: Ending Android USB Freezes

Notes from Discord

Interesting discussion on how to replace the non-functional dummy navigation app in AAOS with a functional APK. Possible solutions: SnappMaps by Snapp Automotive and [Feature request] Android Automotive support #15981 for OsmAnd: Discussion on Discord

Question about how to run a executable on every boot of an Android device: Discussion on Discord

Digging into the AOSP source code: Why persistent Apps cannot be updated via an APK update? Answer: See the source code here: Discussion on Discord

Discussion about using external displays in AOSP and support for this in the Launcher applications: Discussion on Discord

Question about Voice Assistant integration in AOSP, but sadly without an answer: Message on Discord

Question about priv-app permissions with an answer pointing to the Privileged permission allowlist: Discussion on Discord

Partial clone tricks for checking out the AOSP source code: source.android.com - Use a partial clone: Discussion on Discord

Someone is trying to use libcamera for the camera HAL, but has some issues. Some additional links: mi89xx-mainline: mi8953_a: camera: Initial libcamera config and mainline/common: optional: Add libcamera Camera Provider HAL Also nice, because the post showcases how to use APEX for HAL development: Discussion on Discord

Some updates in the jobs channel on Discord: One special request for a Qualcomm SDM8550 bringup and two open positions in Bucharest, Romania as AOSP Developers.

Some findings about special handling of the uses-library XML tag in Android build system for shared libraries: Discussion on Discord

Some general memory debugging tips such as perfetto: Debugging memory usage on Android, developer.android.com: Capture a heap dump and developer.android.com: Record native allocations: Discussion on Discord

Upcoming Events

AOSP Session @ Open Source Summit India (in-person)

Open Source Summit Europe / Embedded Linux Conference Europe (in-person)

AOSP and AAOS September Meetup (online)

Android Open Source Project (AOSP) devroom at IndiaFOSS 2025 (in-person)

DroidCon Berlin (in-person)

Linux Plumbers Conference - Android Micro Conference (in-person and remote)

Past Events

AOSP and AAOS July Meetup (online)