aosp-devs.org 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.

Android 16 released

In June Google released Android 16. It’s already available on the flagship pixel devices and the source code on the AOSP git servers. You can find the release notes here: Android 16 release notes

From a community and downstream perspective, the biggest news was the omission of the pixel build targets in the AOSP tree. This caused some discussions and will be covered by a separate blogpost that we will release later this week.

Android 16 ports

It was fun to see how fast Android 16 was ported to the development boards. A selection:

Notes from Discord

Chris Simmonds was a guest in the LinuxInLaws podcast. Direct link to the podcast audio file LI-S02E38-Android-and-more_.mp3

The paper The Android Platform Security Model (2023) was shared on Discord. It’s a nice read!

The AOSP 16 release does not contain build targets for the current Pixel devices anymore. This caused some discussions on Discord. Statements from Google on X and on google groups

Note about upstream AOSP (Android 16) support for RB3, RB5, SM8550-HDK from Linaro: Discussion on Discord

Plan from BayLibre to support the VIM3 board with an Android 16 update: Discussion on Discord

A super long and detailed thread about AAOS on Pi and other hardware. The thread also contains more infos about infotainment systems/IVI systems with GAS, without GAS and CAN-Adapters, VHAL, Apple Carplay, Android Auto and App stores for automotive: Discussion on Discord Actually this information is worth an own blogpost. If someone wants to write one, feel encouraged.

Some discussion and debugging about PRODUCT_OTA_ENFORCE_VINTF_KERNEL_REQUIREMENTS := false: Discussion on Discord

Discussion about building mesa inside the Android buildsystem or inject it as a prebuilt: Discussion on Discord

Note about VIM3 support by BayLibre and Snapp Automotive AAOS on VIM3: Discussion on Discord

Mentioning of aospext: “Kati makefiles for building libraries within AOSP using Linux build systems (meson, autotools, etc.)”

Computer and build server specs for building AOSP: Discussion on Discord

Question about customizing the setup wizard in Android, e.g. ro.setupwizard.mode=DISABLED: Discussion on Discord

One thread about building fastboot for windows: Discussion on Discord

Question about RGB/RGBA support for Codec2: Discussion on Discord

Some notes about building the kernel (in supported forks like LineageOS) or partition containing the kernel: Discussion on Discord

Some questions about good AOSP development boards. Discussion on Discord which points to aosp-devs.org/code.html and devboardsforandroid.linaro.org/en/latest/

Note about the similarity of Qualcomm and Quectel SoCs: Discussion on Discord

Upcoming Events

AOSP and AAOS July Meetup (online)

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

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

DroidCon Berlin (in-person)

Past Events

No past events this month!