July Newsletter

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

The summer of bliss is over, but nevertheless no hurry to publish the newsletter on time.

Linux Plumbers Conference

The registration for the LPC has opened. It will again host the Android Microconference.

AAOS and AOSP July Meetup Recordings

The recording for the AAOS and AOSP July Meetup is out. It features the talk “The OEM VHAL” by Jan Kubovy (BMW). See Past Events for the slides and the video.

Open Source Summit India

Also for the OSS India the recordings are now available. See the Youtube playlist.

And three of the steering members of aosp-devs.org have met there. Sumit, Amit and Stefan have gathered for photo:

oss-india-steering-members

AAOS on Raspberry Pi

There are some folks working on AAOS for the Raspberry Pi.

E.g. the user fury has posted a couple of messages. It spawned a nice discussion and collaboration:

Blogposts

Here are some AOSP/AAOS/Android related blogposts from July:

The blogpost A big win for Android interoperability is about Android Assistant related features in Android/AOSP:

Google gatekept key Android features, and the European Commission asked what we thought about it. Now Alphabet must open 11 Android features to all.

And three performance blogposts by emteria:

Additional notes on Discord

Building our own AOSP emulator with a couple of links:

Talk about blob-free, aka non-binary, HALs for some devices:

Reviving MSM8953/SDM632 by running GKI/ACK based 6.18 on an AOSP 17 bringup, one step towards a blob free future

Discussion on Discord

AOSP build speed discussion:

Upcoming Events

See also the calendar page.

AOSP and AAOS September Meetup (online)

IndiaFOSS (in-person)

Linux Plumbers Conference (in-person and remote)

Open Source Summit Europe (in-person)

next.app devcon / droidcon Berlin (in-person)

AOSP and AAOS November Meetup (online)

Past events

AOSP and AAOS July Meetup (online)