aosp-devs.org January newsletter

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

It’s not too late. Actually, it’s quite timely, since on the weekend there was FOSDEM fulltime.

FOSDEM’26 - FOSS on Mobile devroom

We joined the FOSS on Mobile devroom and it was amazing. A full day of talks and the room was full nearly all the time. The recordings are already on air on the schedule and talk pages.

AOSP and AAOS Meetup

And three days before FOSDEM there was also the AOSP and AAOS January Meetup with two talks:

You can find recordings on this page.

No Q1 and Q3 Android release

On January 6 the following note has appeared on the source.android.com.

Effective in 2026, to align with our trunk stable development model and ensure platform stability for the ecosystem, we will publish source code to AOSP in Q2 and Q4.

Again covered by Mishaal Rahman on Android Authority: Breaking: Google will now only release Android source code twice a year

Mishaal Rahman

But sadly, this will be the last blogpost by Mishaal on Android Authority

Some personal news:

This is my last day at Android Authority, and it also marks the end of my time posting Android news!

I’ve spent the past 10 years writing about Android, and I’ve enjoyed every moment of it. What began as a hobby in college — tinkering with custom ROMs and modding my phone — turned into a long career, one totally disconnected from my degree in Biomedical Engineering.

Source on mastodon

Thanks for all the news coverage about Android in the last years!

Additional notes on Discord

New Blogpost: Building Apps for Cars in 2026: Android Auto, AAOS, and Vehicle Data APIs

New Blogpost: Why AOSP teams should bring-up a virtual device

There is a tool to convert from cmake, meson, gn to Android.bp files semi-automatic. See ninja-to-soong: Discussion on Discord

The jobs channel on the discord server is used. There are two job postings in the last days: Discussion on Discord

Discussion about a git repository that is missing form the Google git servers: Discussion on Discord

How to avoid SELinux neverallow rules: 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)

Past events

AOSP and AAOS January Meetup (online)

FOSDEM - FOSS on Mobile devroom (in-person)