aosp-devs.org May newsletter

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

The tradition continues. The May newsletter is released again two days too late.

AOSP devroom at IndiaFOSS 2025

There will be an Android Open Source Project (AOSP) devroom at IndiaFOSS. It’s held from 19 - 21 September 2025 in NIMHANS Convention Centre, Bengaluru, India.

The CfP is still open until the 7th June. Please submit.

Notes from Discord

First AAOS release for Android 15:

Cross post from LinkedIn to discord. Al Sutton has written a post about the first Android Automotive release based on Android15. The manifest and tags are available now.

See android-automotiveos-15.0.0_lts1 and LinkedIn.

Some updates for the Gatekeeper HAL:

Hi all, i just finish AIDL migration and implementation of missing feature (delete_user/delete_all_users) in Gatekeeper HAL.

See Discussion on Discord and baylibre.

Solution for the modem integration on a SDM632 from Qualcomm. Discussion on Discord

Unittest in the HAL layer. Discussion on Discord

AOSP and Android certification. Discussion on Discord, Sign builds for release - source.android.com and GMS certification: A complete guide from requirements to submission - emteria

Ruling for GAS (Google Automotive Services) in Germany: Discussion on Discord, news article - heise.de

And some tips for downloads from the Google git servers: Use authentication to avoid quota barriers

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

AOSP and AAOS May Meetup (online)

Embedded Recipes (in-person)

Linaro Connect (in-person)