aosp-devs.org March Newsletter

Welcome to the third aosp-devs newsletter, keeping you up to date with things happening in the AOSP developer community.

Updates to the AOSP development workflow by Google

Android Authority has posted a news article how Google currently develops Android and how it’s changing in the future: Exclusive: Google will develop the Android OS fully in private, and here’s why

Related to this, there is a new FAQ entry on source.android.com: About android-latest-release

You can find the full discussion on discord.

New Blogposts

Compile-time validation of JNI signatures

Notes from Discord

Using @hide APIs in Android Studio: Discussion on discord and a github project: Android Hidden APIs

Project Kaleidoscope (now discontinued) for data bindings: Discussion on discord and git commit in LMODroid

AI/ML in AOSP discussion: Discussion on discord

ADB transport id (useful if you have devices with an identical serial number): Discussion on discord

Android mainline modules and tags: esper: How to Find Out What’s Actually New in Google Play System Updates and Discussion on discord

The website source.android.com maintains a changelog of site updates. See Site updates and discussion on discord

Tips and tricks for building cuttlefish (the runtime) on Ubuntu: Discussion on discord

AOSP git tags for automotive: Discussion on discord

Upcoming Events

Embedded Recipes (in-person)

Linaro Connect (in-person)

AOSP and AAOS May Meetup (online)

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

DroidCon Berlin (in-person)

Past events

AOSP and AAOS March Meetup (online)