Contents:

please see also:

• COVESA AOSP Emulator Weekly
• COVESA AOSP Data Weekly
• COVESA AOSP Entertainment Minutes
• COVESA AOSP Weekly 2024
• COVESA AOSP Weekly 2023

General Information

Welcome to the COVESA Automotive AOSP App Framework Standardization Expert Group Meeting!

Weekly Meeting: Monday, 5-6pm CEST (Zoom Link) (Subscribe to Community Calendar to stay up to date)

Slack: https://covesacommunity.slack.com/archives/C05EB6A6J5R

GitHub: https://github.com/COVESA/aosp-app-framework-standardizatiion

Chairs:

• Sabine Hofschen , BMW
• Richard Fernandes , General Motors
• Gabriel Gautron , FORVIA

Compliance statement:

Antitrust
Before we begin, we would like to make clear that COVESA is committed to compliance with the antitrust laws in all of its activities, and that it expects all participants to similarly comply with the antitrust laws.  We will not engage in--and members must refrain from--any discussion of, or understandings regarding competitively sensitive topics. If you have any doubts regarding whether a matter is appropriate for discussion, please consult with your antitrust counsel.

Open and Royalty-Free
Further, COVESA aspires to be an open and royalty-free organization. The discussions and contributions made during this session are governed by the COVESA Intellectual Property policy. If you are unfamiliar with that policy, please review it in detail prior to making any contribution that reads upon a patent.

Meeting Notes 2025

Agenda 2025-02-14 (tbc)

• Participants:
• Push Revisited:
  • marketing / blog post
  • merge request
  • AMM / zoom
• all the streams revisited
• AMM revisited
• Start a discussion on requirements to a COVESA SDK in general?

Meeting notes 2025-02-17

• Participants: GM, FORVIA, Appning by FORVIA, BMW, Bosch, FORD, Elektrobit, Endava, Paradox Cat.
• AMM coming in May:
  
  • Update what we have done.
  • Feedback from different members.
  • Very open to inputs: business track. If executives want to talk, welcome.
  • Projects / next steps 40min-1h
  • Technical sessions (different work streams). & call for participants – welcome, mostly on 14^th of May.
• Push Notifications revisited
  • Some presentations about Push Notifications
    • PDF from workshop in April 2024 link 
  • Links for COVESA Push Notifications
    • The solution is based on Unified Push link
    • Distributor app built for COVESA: Sunup link
    • Covesa AOSP SDK link
      • Pull request for integrating push notifications link
    • The solution can use the Mozilla Autopush RS Server  link
    • Sample app for implementation example: developers can use this sample page link
      
      

  • changes have been proposed. PR fixes an issue https://github.com/p1gp1g/covesa-aosp-sdk/pulls
    appning is further investigating.

  • Decoupling push notifications from ambient light is possible – Each module or package can be addressed separately.
  • Discussion on COVESA SDK (forked from, discussions) –
    please leave comments on https://github.com/COVESA/covesa-aosp-sdk/discussions
  • Description best in readme on github, link out from there. Website of devs a good place as well.

Meeting notes 2025-02-10

• Participants: COVESA, csimmonds, GM, RemotiveLabs, BMW, FORVIA, Ford, Appning by FORVIA, Endava, Valtech Mobility, Allianz, Tietoevry, Paradox Cat, Renesas, mavi.io
• info: https://aosp-devs.org/
• Data Workstream summary. see 2025-02-06 Meeting Notes
• AMM Berlin in May planning, ideas:
  • table / bench for AMM to show what we have achieved so far.
  • demos in technical track - what has been achieved with emulator, data, push notifications
  • data PoCs on different headunits?
  • FORVIA app challenge lessons learned?
• EU data act: weekly meeting date still in discussion, status 2025-02-05:
  see meeting link, charter is already there: EU Data Act Project - Wiki Front Page - COVESA
• for AOSP participation in APAC meeting, see calendar: 

  https://wiki.covesa.global/display/WIK4/Data+Expert+Group+and+VSS+Asia+Friendly+Time+-+Meeting+Topics+and+Meeting+Notes

• Push Notifications 
  • documentation is in readmes sample/client on codeberg.org and on Unified Push Website,
    re-check if this is enough:

    https://unifiedpush.org/ 

    https://unifiedpush.org/users/distributors/sunup/

  • 
    

    Viktor still testing the SUNUP distributor, then merge can be done (see below).
  • status on uses-feature tag talked about in AOSP-weekly: COVESA AOSP Weekly 2024#14thOctober2024-MeetingNotes:
  • PS regarding "uses-feature" tag: 

    The idea is to let the app store on the car - or the OEM - check if an app has a dependency on a distributor app. (bearbeitet) 

    → Simon: You can use `org.unifiedpush.android.connector.NEW_ENDPOINT` or `org.unifiedpush.android.connector.MESSAGE` for instance

• Emulator - see Meeting notes 2025-02-10 and COVESA AOSP Emulator Requirements

Meeting notes 2025-02-03

• Participants: BMW, COVESA, Bosch, RemotiveLabs, FORVIA, FORD, Appning by FORVIA, Tietoevry, General Motors, Elektrobit, Endava, Allianz, Paradox Cat
• 5-5:30 pm (CEST) General Topics:
  • Push Notifications:  
    • Project is done. Branch is ready to be merged: https://github.com/mozilla-services/autopush-rs/pull/813
    • Marketing ideas:
      • "funded by COVESA" on websites 

        https://unifiedpush.org/ 

        https://unifiedpush.org/users/distributors/sunup/
        
        

      • Blog is planned
      • on AMM in Berlin, idea to invite Zoom as Zoom app uses Push Notifcations.
        
        
  • AMM:
    • AMM 202505 Technical Track Session Proposals, 
      deadline: March 15
      input: Title, Who is presenting What, abstract
      for tech tracks, no full presentation is needed, enough to present from laptop
    • Business track on top of AMM Technical Track. deadline mid of February.
      COVESA Spring 2025 AMM Call for Participation
    • In addition workshops, dev sessions possible. please come back to the co-chairs with your ideas.
      
      
    • See also https://www.linkedin.com/posts/covesa-alliance_ai-dataprivacy-regulation-activity-7287896325247901696-GcPy?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop
      
      
  • Working spaces on confluence for Emulator, Data workstream → will be set up.
    
    
  • Latest on Data Workstream: AOSP: Data Workstream, 30rd January 2025 Meeting Notes
    
  • EU Data Act Project Information see Calendar COVESA Common Meeting Schedule
    
    
• 5:30-6:00 pm (CEST) Emulator workstream COVESA AOSP Emulator Weekly

Meeting notes 2025-01-27

• Participants: BMW, FORVIA/Appning by FORVIA, General Motors, FORD, COVESA, UnifiedPush, RemotiveLabs, Elektrobit, Tietoevry, Paradox Cat
• General Topics:
  
  • Unified Push Notifications review:
    • Status:
      everything delivered, pull request pending
    • Test Status:
      • fine so far,
      • self hosting setup to be tested,
      • further testers welcome.
    • Next steps:
      • refining documentation and links to documentation,
        see also
        https://github.com/COVESA/covesa-aosp-sdk/pull/3
        https://unifiedpush.org/#funding
      • meeting with COVESA marketing team, see also
        https://wiki.covesa.global/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=4227243
  • Releasing an app to Appning and HARMAN Ignite Stores:
    went well, onepager feedback from Session from Florian Hirschmann, BMW
    
  • Data workstream
    see AOSP: Data Workstream
    
    
• Emulator Kickoff - requirements (José Freitas, appning by FORVIA):
  COVESA AOSP Emulator Weekly, Meeting notes 2025-01-27

Meeting notes 2025-01-13

• Participants: BMW, FORVIA, General Motors, Elektrobit, Geotab, Mavi.io, Paradox Cat, RemotiveLabs, Tietoevry, UnifiedPush 
• COVESA CES event was successful
• Emulator
  • Paul reached out to Google and will debrief in next meeting
  • Richard will setup a meeting for next Monday 5:30PM CET

• Data workstream
  • Paul will present the initiative in the VSS meeting to get involvement from OEMs
  • Suggestion to have someone present what was already done: 

    link link link

  • Presentation about VSS by BMW 

    link

• Push notifications
  • Sunup
    • Delivered: new distributor => Sunup, 

      codeberg, izzysoft,

      and proposed on frdoid
    • Mentioned on the UP website

       link

    • Added support for Reddis for autopush, modif upstream not in fork
    • Added support for urgency
      • Server
  • Docker compose available to easily deploy the server
    • • Call for testers !
  • Paradoxcat collaborated end of 2024
• Communication:
  • Need to make an article / blog post about it
  • Simon will reference "Contributed by Covesa" on his website

• Agenda for next meeting
  • Testing apps
  • Organize AMM live meeting (demo, …)
  • How to reach out to app developers and invite them to our activities
    • Such as uploading to stores

Charter