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Meeting Notes 2025

Agenda 2025-07-tbd 

• Droidcon - what has been submitted.
• next steps for potential next topics
• onboarding for customers - discussion continued.

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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