aosp-devs.org October newsletter

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

Since the newsletter is not on-time (again), it misses halloweeeeeeen.

News update about the Application Sideloading Changes

After the first blog post from F-Droid Let’s talk security: Answering your top questions about Android developer verification, they have published a second post What We Talk About When We Talk About Sideloading now. It also contains a reference to the new website: Keep Android Open

Here is the last public statement from Google from September: Let’s talk security: Answering your top questions about Android developer verification

LPC Schedule is out

The schedule for the Linux Plumbers Conference this year is out. It continues to feature the Android MC (Micro Conference), but also contains Android related talks in other tracks.

Talk Recordings

droidcon Berlin and the AOSP devroom at IndiaFOSS were already featured in the last newsletter, but now all talk recordings are out.

All AOSP devroom talks

are on the Youtube playlist AOSP Devroom at IndiaFOSS 2025.

And a selected list of AOSP/AAOS-related talks from droidcon berlin is:

Android Building Google group

The newsletter highlights a thread on the Android Building Google group: AOSP build being so resource demanding is frustrating - can we optimize?

It contains a lot of good responses and material. One quote:

16GiB wasn’t enough to build comfortably a decade ago. and while, yes, if you were their boss you could have an engineer try to reduce those requirements … but you’d have a hard time justifying to your boss why that engineer wasn’t fixing something that would improve the product. especially because the cost of 128GiB of ram isn’t going to pay that engineer’s wages (even if they’re on minimum wage!) for one whole 40 hour week.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opportunity_cost

And it also features more information about the technical details of the Android build system. Have a look!

And other notes from Discord

Since in October there were a lot of good discussions on Discord, the following list is only a short excerpt. Feel free to join the Discord server and listen directly.

Example HAL implementation: aosp.local-manifests.paradoxcat-infineon-radar and RadarDemoApp: Discussion on Discord

Another Example HAL implementation: Custom-HAL-Demo-LED, Discussion on Discord

Talk: Transitioning to memory safety: lessons from the Android project - Jeffrey Vander Stoep

Discussion about the ongoing (Linux kernel) mainline efforts by LineageOS and the currently stalled project AOSP Mainline: Discussion on Discord

LineageOS has a good summary Changelog 30 - Sleek Sixteen, Streamlined Suite, Future Flow of the recent release strategy changes by Google: Security releases only every four months, and QPR delayed/not-released.

Interesting talk about multiple displays and foldables: Discussion on Discord

Talk about integrating a Renesas camera into a Qualcomm-based board: Discussion on Discord

Talk about OP-TEE and building: Discussion on Discord

Upcoming Events

AOSP and AAOS November Meetup (online)

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