June Newsletter

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

Three days too late. But at least in the northern hemisphere, it’s summertime. So it is time to relax and take a break.

Android 17 is out!

Android 17 is out. You can read the details on the Android Developers blogpost Android 17 is here and on source.android.com Android 17 release notes.

There are also some Android 17 device porting posts:

Some other Android 17 updates from the community:

The long-announced Software Defined Vehicle (SDV) is public now:

Further Discussion on Discord

Blogposts

Some other news out of the AOSP blogosphere:

Actinis: Building AOSP on ARM64: From an 8 GB Jetson to DGX Spark

Can a modern ARM64 workstation-class host build AOSP natively, or is the AOSP host-side build still too x86-centric?

Google: Android developer verification: Building a safer ecosystem together

Initial launch across seven stores and four countries

Additional notes on Discord

Interesting talk about using external and pre-built build artifacts to accelerate AOSP builds: Discussion on Discord

Talk about AOSP source code navigation and editor: Android Studio for Platform and Discussion on Discord

RBE (Remote Build Execution) for AOSP real world experiences: Discussion on Discord

MCP API in AOSP exits: Overview of AppFunctions and Discussion on Discord

Microsoft announces AI-only devices without apps for business/medical clients based on AOSP: Microsoft “Project Solara”: The vision of agent-centric hardware Discussion on Discord

Upcoming Events

See also the calendar page.

AOSP and AAOS July 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)

Past events

Open Source Summit India (in-person)