Meeting Notes 2025

Minutes 2025-06-23

Participants: COVESA, GM, BMW, Spotify, Paradox Cat, CARIAD SE, Remotive Labs, Allianz
Planning Droidcon, see call for papers https://sessionize.com/droidcon-berlin-2025/:
- Paradox Cat is planning talks on Carchestra (appning App Challenge Winner), Covesa and more (Kotlin related).
- The chairs & friends (welcome!) are preparing a talk.
- Idea: Talk on how to get an app to the car. For all to understand. (appning? talk prepared by chairs & friends?)
Status App Host: Google plans an update on the AOSP Host API level 8 this year. Seems as if we need no project for that.
Invite Entertainment Meeting this Thursday, June 26 with BBC: 26.06.2025 Monthly
Discussion on potential next topics:
- would another survey make sense?
- general: how to solve the fragmentation problem we are facing.
- multiscreen support e.g. can cause fragmentation in the long run.
- onboarding for customers:
  - why: to get the activation rate higher, measure: as easy as CarPlay.
  - what: share best practises. (pre-install, trainings)
  - ideas: industry best practises, e.g. from LG and Samsung. what is best in class?
  - potential outcomes:
    - a white paper,
    - maybe even a standardized way of launching your first apps on a car,
    - walk-Through, car-setup wizard from AOSP, Google.
    - emulator contribution (showing out-of-box on emulator).

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Participants: COVESA, GM, BMW, Spotify, Remotive Labs, FORD, Paradox Cat, Allianz.
Recap App Host
Droidcon - call for papers https://sessionize.com/droidcon-berlin-2025/ -
gather ideas on a COVESA talk.
→ still waiting for feedback. Aim is to offer 3rd partys to use the same Car App Library templates also for AOSP.
Google automotive bootcamp → videos open under NDA for all who are registered participantsgoogle automotive bootcamp recap.
feedback AMM and learnings for next AMM
announcement next entertainment meeting on June, 26 with BBC: 26.06.2025 Monthly
data stream - how to move forward. time slot in this meeting, no extra thursday meetings for the time being.
Discussion on Car App Library - ideal would be if car properties would be as well in the Car App Library.

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