May newsletter

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

Just a bit … two days too late. But I would say it was worth the wait. May was the month of AI for AOSP. Read on!

May AOSP and AAOS Meetup - Recordings online

The recordings of the last AOSP and AAOS Meetup are online, featuring

See AOSP and AAOS meetup.

Call for Proposals

In May, three conferences have opened the CfP for AOSP and AAOS releated content:

AOSP devroom at IndiaFOSS

Call for Proposals: AOSP devroom at IndiaFOSS 2026!

The Android Open Source Project (AOSP) devroom is returning to IndiaFOSS this September in Bengaluru! In collaboration with the aosp-devs community, we are inviting developers and tinkerers to submit their talk proposals. From deep dives into AOSP and Android Automotive OS framework to custom ROMs and AI assisted development, if it’s open-source Android, we want to hear about it!

Whether you are a seasoned contributor or a passionate newcomer, this is your platform to share your Android insights and war stories with the community.

Get all the details and submit your session (make sure to select the “AOSP” track): https://fossunited.org/indiafoss/2026/devrooms/aosp

CFP Deadline: June 15, 2026

Event: Sept 26-27, 2026, NIMHANS Convention Centre, Bengaluru

Android MC at LPC

Call for Proposals: Android Micro Conference at the Linux Plumbers Conference!

The Android Micro Conference at LPC brings the upstream Linux community and Android systems developers together to discuss platform challenges, kernel interactions and dependencies, and opportunities for upstream collaboration.

If you are working on subsystems or features that bridge Android and the upstream Linux kernel, we want your voice in the room. Submit your discussion topics and abstracts here (please select the “Android MC” track): https://lpc.events/event/20/abstracts/

Note: We encourage you to submit your proposals by June 26, 2026 to take advantage of the pre-registration window.

CFP Deadline: August 07, 2026

Event: October 05-07, 2026, Prague Congress Centre, Prague

Open Source Summit Europe (in-person)

The CfP is open until June 24th. The Embedded Linux Conference features Android Embedded and AOSP content.

Blog post overview

Google is introducing the Android Performance Analyzer (APA): Introducing Android Performance Analyzer: The Next Evolution in Profiling for Android

Baylibre reports: Baylibre Partners with SpacemiT to Bring Android 16 to RISC-V

Google implements binary transparency, also for APEX/Android Mainline modules: Evolving Verifiable Trust: Bringing Binary Transparency to the Android Ecosystem

AOSP goes agentic

lightrion.com popped up on Discord and LinkedIn. It’s an MCP server for AOSP:

Source-grounded answers for Android code questions.

For a quickstart, go to search.lightrion.com and see the Discussion on Discord and LinkedIn post.

There is a blogpost about using claude code on AOSP: Using Claude Code on AOSP-scale projects. Further discussion here on Discord

And there is a new open book about Android on Github (to also feed the AI): A Developer’s Guide to the Android Open Source Project

Additional notes on Discord

emteria has a LinkedIn post about secure boot on RaspberryPi for Android: For shipping real products on Raspberry Pi 5

Talk about flashing an RPI4 hardware with AAOS: Discussion on Discord

cs.android.com does not index old branches/releases anymore: Discussion on Discord

Replace CarLauncher with a CustomLauncher: Discussion on Discord

Beginner’s thread for starting to hack on AOSP: Discussion on Discord

Building and running Cuttlefish on arch. It works! See: Discussion on Discord

Upcoming Events

See also the calendar page.

Open Source Summit India (in-person)

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

AOSP and AAOS May Meetup (online)