aosp-devs.org February newsletter

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

We are back to normal, 6 days too late without excuses.

Security updates and AAOS release

The new three month security updates release cycle of AOSP is ticking. On 2nd March, the security updates were released. See bulletins and source code tag announcement.

Also the AAOS release was announced: Android Automotive 25Q4

This page describes features and enhancements in the Android Automotive OS (AAOS) 25Q4 release. AAOS 25Q4 is an official golden release. 25Q4 offers eight new features and addresses 180 issues.

AAOS 25Q4 uses API level 36.

Additional notes on Discord and blog posts

Google’s blog post: A new era for choice and openness. It’s a response on the disputes with Epic Games.

Blog post: Motorola announces a partnership with GrapheneOS Foundation, marking a new chapter in smartphone security and expanding its enterprise portfolio

AOSP has language server protocol support. See platform/build/soong/+/HEAD/docs/compdb.md Discussion on Discord

Map provider integration on AAOS thread: Discussion on Discord

Thread about the integration of a TP2815 and Toparea TS18A-360-TP2815-V4 camera board into AAOS: Discussion on Discord

Some general debugging tips for AOSP, e.g. cs.android.com and DEBUG flags: Discussion on Discord

Discussion about AI integration into AOSP. Answer: mostly no/never Discussion on Discord

Upcoming Events

AOSP and AAOS Meetup (online)

Open Source Summit India (in-person)

Linux Plumbers Conference (in-person and remote)

Open Source Summit Europe (in-person)