aosp-devs.org September newsletter

Welcome to the ninth aosp-devs newsletter, keeping you up to date with things happening in the AOSP developer community. September started slowly, but picked up speed with events and news to the end.

Nevertheless, the newsletter is late, late, late … and late.

Upcoming changes by Google for Application sideloading

We already covered the upcoming change A new layer of security for certified Android devices in the last newsletter.

There are some updates:

In the spotlight

Karim sorted the recent changes and news around AOSP into the bigger picture. Watch it here: Reading the tea leaves – What could the future hold for the AOSP?

The talks from the AOSP devroom at IndiaFOSS are online. See on youtube: IndiaFOSS 2025 | Devroom : AOSP (Android Open Source Project)

And Mastering SELinux in AOSP - From Frustration to Control by Daniel Fages

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And other notes from Discord

Let’s play a game. Imagine you are in charge of AOSP. What would you do to improve it? Show your reasoning on LinkedIn by Chris with some interesting suggestions.

Security Updates to the AOSP are on a different schedule now: LinkedIn

And Android 16 QPR1’s source code is nowhere to be found, but Google swears it’s coming: Discussion on Discord

In the light of the recent AOSP changes, people think about the long term impact on AOSP being used in custom devices. Al Sutton is predicting that Amazon is ditching AOSP and using VegaOS (based on linux) and also on androidcentral. With the final announcement some days later Introducing Vega OS and Vega Developer Tools and on LinkedIn by Amazon.

New Custom HAL example on github.com/Silicon-Signals/Custom-HAL-Demo-LED

FOSDEM26 is on the 31 January & 1 February 2026.

On LinkedIn: 🚀 Bootchart in AOSP – Visualizing the Android Boot Process

Some talk about build system, build speed and hardware requirements: Discussion on Discord and Project: Setting up a build server

Someone is trying to get AOSP running on a rockchip SoC RK3568 and uses the presentation How to Enable Android (AOSP) on Your Developer Board - Mattijs Korpershoek, BayLibre: Discussion on Discord

Upcoming Events

AOSP and AAOS November Meetup (online)

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

Past Events

AOSP and AAOS September Meetup (online)

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

DroidCon Berlin (in-person)