The AOSP and AAOS Meetup
About
The AOSP and AAOS Meetup Group is a forum for talking about building, developing and testing products based on AOSP and AAOS (Android Automotive OS)
Community
Community is where we all come together to talk and exchange ideas. This meetup is part of that, and there is a Slack workspace (for historical reasons) where we can keep in touch between meetups: https://join.slack.com/t/theaospandaao-ij91284/shared_invite/zt-1k7lmay4j-fX1EGjNgN7OUh72jucQg2g
Devices
Android is not just smart phones. There is a separate section dedicated to Android running on devices of all types
Meetups
Meetings are held every two months, starting in March 2022 (so in 2023, that is January, March, May, July, September, and November). Each meeting is 2 hours, starting with 10 minutes meet and greet, followed by two or three talks of up to 20 minutes each on any topics that we find interesting, followed by time for networking. Since AOSP and AAOS developers are scattered over a wide area, this is an online meetup
Click on this link to see the group page at meetup.com: https://www.meetup.com/the-aosp-and-aaos-meetup/
The slides for all of the talks are available - just click on the links below. Most of the talks are recorded as well
The March 2024 Meetup
20th March 2024: https://www.meetup.com/the-aosp-and-aaos-meetup/events/298562265/
Introduction
Talk 1: Android Fragmentation in the Automotive Industry
Android fragmentation is becoming a real issue in the automotive industry. What is it and what can we do to prevent it?
Juhani Lehtimäki, Snapp Automotive
Talk 2: What to expect in Android 15
While the source code for this year’s Android 15 ‘Vanilla Ice Cream’ release won’t be made public before early September (estimated), there’s a lot we can glean about this release from Google’s current developer previews, AOSP code changes, and documentation. Here’s a summary of what to expect
Mishaal Rahman
The January 2024 Meetup
24th January 2024: https://www.meetup.com/the-aosp-and-aaos-meetup/events/297043889/
Talk 1: SELinux in Android
How it works and how it’s used to make Android more secure
Alan Stokes, Google
Talk 2: aminilog – AOSP styled logging macros for NDK projects
Stefan Lengfeld, inovex
The November 2023 Meetup
15th November 2023: https://www.meetup.com/the-aosp-and-aaos-meetup/events/296399142/
Introduction
Talk 1: Working with custom Android devices
In this session you will learn the most important parts of working on custom devices. We will cover things like developers boards, board support packages, AOSP builds, firmware updates, and much more
Erik Hellman
Talk 2: Adventures with Systrace - measure and investigate the glass to glass latency in Android
What is the glass to glass latency in Android? This means how much delay is between the camera, taking a picture, and the screen, to display the picture again. This presentation is a technical tour through the Android graphics system and hardware. From the measurement setup, based on cables, LEDs, photodiodes and an oscilloscope, to camera sensors and the rolling shutter effect, to displays and refresh rates, to surfaceflinger and vsyncs, and last but not least to the ultimate tool to debug most of your performance issues, to Android’s systrace
Stefan Lengfeld, inovex
Q & A
Following the two talks at the meetup there was a Q & A session that covered topics from the talks and also other (related) topics
The September 2023 Meetup
27th September 2023: https://www.meetup.com/the-aosp-and-aaos-meetup/events/294716404/
Introduction
https://2net.co.uk/slides/aosp-aaos-meetup/2023-september-introduction.pdf
Talk 1: Interactive AOSP-based cloud streaming solution
Running an AOSP 13 adaptation on an ARM64 cloud server, streaming it to an actual phone at high frame rate and low-latency for touch events. Simonas Leleiva, iond.io slides
The July 2023 Meetup
12th July 2023: https://www.meetup.com/the-aosp-and-aaos-meetup/events/293488203/
Introduction
https://2net.co.uk/slides/aosp-aaos-meetup/2023-july-introduction.pdf
Talk 1: Binder RPC - AIDL for distributed systems
David Brazdil, Google Slides Video
Talk 2: Debugging AOSP using Android Studio - revisited
Chris Simmonds, 2net Slides Video
Useful links
- what-changed - list changes in repos between two tags: https://github.com/aospandaaos/useful-scripts
- Repoload - a change request download tool: https://github.com/lengfeld/repoload/
- A JDB/GDB plugin for VIM: https://github.com/brookhong/jdb.vim
The May 2023 Meetup
24th May 2023: https://www.meetup.com/the-aosp-and-aaos-meetup/events/292517323/
Introduction
https://2net.co.uk/slides/aosp-aaos-meetup/2023-may-instroduction.pdf
Talk 1: Broadcast Radio in AAOS
Simon Osim, Conjure Slides Video
Talk 2: RAMSES – An open source 3D graphics tool chain for Android
Klaus Gaßner, Paradox Cat Slides Video
Talk 3: Evolution of an Android OTA management application
Diego Rondini, Kynetics Slides Video
The March 2023 Meetup
29th March 2023 https://www.meetup.com/the-aosp-and-aaos-meetup/events/290740637/
Talk 1: Devboard maintenance in AOSP
Amit Pundir, Linaro Slides Video
Talk 2: Debugging Made Easy: Tips and Tricks for Android Developers
Chris Hayes, Memfault Slides Video
The January 2023 Meetup
11th January 2023 https://www.meetup.com/the-aosp-and-aaos-meetup/events/289470147/
Talk 1: App developers and Android Automotive OS
Al Sutton - Snapp Automotive Slides Video
Talk 2: Thoughts about AOSP on Raspberry Pi 4
Chris Simmonds - 2net Slides Video
The November 2022 meetup
16th November 2022 https://www.meetup.com/the-aosp-and-aaos-meetup/events/288711718/
Talk 1: ConnectivityService and networking in Android
Diogo Júnior - Critical TechWorks Slides Video
Talk 2: Securing iMX6 Android Devices, Part 2
Andrea Scian - DAVE Embedded Systems Slides Video
Talk 3: Debugging SEPolicy
Chris Simmonds - 2net Slides Video
The September 2022 meetup
28th September 2022 https://www.meetup.com/the-aosp-and-aaos-meetup/events/287270409/
Talk 1: Notes from Linux Plumbers Conference
Chris Simmonds - 2net Slides Video
Talk 2: Swimming towards a Software Defined Architecture with Android Trout
Isaac Trefz - OpenSynergy Slides Video
Talk 3: You can do better than bug reports
Devon Yablonski - Memfault Slides Video
Talk 4: gdb & lldb debugging custom RPI4 linux kernel
Jürgen Weißer Slides Video Files
The July 2022 meetup
20th July 2022 https://www.meetup.com/the-aosp-and-aaos-meetup/events/285701618/
Talk 1: Extending the Vehicle HAL with vendor properties
Chris Simmonds - 2net Slides
Talk 2: Debugging native platform code using LLDB
Chris Simmonds - 2net Slides Video
Talk 3: Keeping Embedded Android Up To Date
Igor Kalkov-Streitz - Emteria Slides Video
The May 2022 meetup
18th May 2022 https://www.meetup.com/the-aosp-and-aaos-meetup/events/284503177/
Talk 1: Securing iMX6 Android Devices
Andrea Scian - DAVE Embedded Systems
Slides
Video
Talk 2: Long term support for Enterprise Android Devices
Rupesh Gujare - NotioNext Slides
Talk 3: Introduction to COVESA and the Android Automotive Special Interest Group
Paul Boyes - COVESA Slides
Talk 4: Browsing and debugging framework code using Android Studio
Chris Simmonds - 2net Slides Video
The March 2022 meetup
16th March 2022 https://www.meetup.com/the-aosp-and-aaos-meetup/events/284376317/
This was the first meetup of our group. A total of 25 members attended, and I would like to say thanks to everyone who was there, and I hope you are motivated to come along to the next one in May
Talk 1: Aims and Objectives of the AOSP and AAOS Meetup
Chris Simmonds - 2net Slides
Talk 2: The Cuttlefish Emulator
Chris Simmonds - 2net slides
Talk 3: VHAL SocketComm
Chris Simmonds - 2net slides