aosp-devs.org November newsletter

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

New record: 6 days too late, but … we are busy organizing the devroom at FOSDEM’26.

FOSDEM`26

aosp-devs will be again at FOSDEM 2026! This year we are joining forces with the FOSS on Mobile devroom to host a range of presentations on AOSP, Automotive, booting, as well as many other mobile topics.

The CfP is already over. The schedule will be published on December 15th here: FOSS on mobile.

Android QPR2 (and QPR1) source code released

The QPR2 source code is out there. See the building list and as always Mishaal Rahman’s post about it: Google’s second big Android 16 update is rolling out for Pixel phones: Here’s EVERYTHING new!

And also long awaited QPR1 source code was released. See the post on the building list.

Blog posts

We have a new blog post published: The year in review

And some highlights from the Google blogs:

And other conferences

The locations and dates for the Open Source Summit India and Open Source Summit Europe are already out. See below for the details.

And next week is Linux Plumbers Conference in Japan. You can also attend virtually. See LPC: Attend.

And other notes from Discord

Featured talk from IndiaFOSS: AOSP Testing at scale using CuttleFish in the Cloud

The generic HALs, e.g. Audio, developed by BayLibre are also available on github for easier contribution now. See github. Discussion on Discord And even more infos here Discussion on Discord

NFS boot for Android gitlab repo: Discussion on Discord

Talk about running AAOS on raspberry pi: Discussion on Discord

Discussion about broken Bluetooth support on Snapp automotive images and pointers to a fix: Discussion on Discord

Notes about using a TPM in AOSP and link to github: optiga-tpm-aosp: Discussion on Discord

AOSP support for VIM4? Discussion on Discord

Native Arch64 execution on Google cloud? Discussion on Discord

Upcoming Events

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

AOSP and AAOS January Meetup (online)

FOSDEM - FOSS on Mobile devroom (in-person)

Open Source Summit India (in-person)

Open Source Summit Europe (in-person)

Past events

AOSP and AAOS November Meetup (online)