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Meeting Notes 2025

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• Participants:

• Droidcon - our submission for COVESA AOSP Group:
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  Speakers: Sabine Hofschen, BMW. Gabriel Gautron, Forvia. Chris Simmonds.
• COVESA Fall 2025 AMM planning (Ann Arbor, MI event on 22-23 October.):
  • COVESA Fall 2025 AMM Call for Participation → deadline end of July.
  • Discussion on how to organize Fall 2025 AMM for AOSP Group.
• AOSP Host update and discussion on how to proceed.
• AOSP Next topics - discussion.

Minutes 2025-06-30

• Participants: COVESA, Forvia, Appning by Forvia, BMW, Paradox Cat, Remotive Labs, FORD, Allianz
• Droidcon - our COVESA AOSP submission - status:

  Format: Lightning Talk (20 min) Speaker:
  one of the Co-Chairs of COVESA AOSP Group (Sabine Hofschen, Gabriel Gautron, José Freitas, Richard Fernandes)

  Track:  Android Automotive

  1. 1. Title:
  submission - status:

  Format: Lightning Talk (20 min) or ?? Session (40 min) → comments: can be a session as well

  Speaker:
  one of the Co-Chairs of COVESA AOSP Group (Sabine Hofschen, Gabriel Gautron, José Freitas, Richard Fernandes)

  Plus a dev potentially? Volunteers ??? Florian H.?

  Track:  Android Automotive

  1. 1. Title Ideas:„How COVESA empowers 3rd Party App Developers: Bridging Gaps and Building Standards in the Automotive Ecosystem“
        key words / Chris: that is in the active tense, that emphasises the benefit to app developers, reducing fragmentation and the role of covesa as a standardising body.
        "Driving Standards: How COVESA is Powering the Future of Android Automotive"
        "From Gaps to Gears: Accelerating 3rd Party App Integration in Android Automotive"
        "Open Roads, Open Source: COVESA’s Journey in Android Automotive"
        
     2.   "Streamlining App Development in the Automotive Sector: Overcoming Fragmentation and Fostering OEM Collaboration"
     3. "Enhancing App Development: Bridging Gaps and Building Standards in the Automotive Ecosystem"
     4. "Driving Unity: Reducing Friction for App Developers through OEM Best Practices"
     5. "Navigating Challenges: Promoting Standards and Solving Unique OEM Issues in Automotive App Development"
     "Empowering App Developers: A Unified Approach to Standards and Collaboration in the Automotive Industry"
     It's time to develop apps for Android cars: getting started with COVESA.
     
     6. Define (3 to 5) key takeaways and learning points:
        1. Android Automotive market overview.
        2. Android Automotive key challenges for developers - how do apps get into the car (→ note: including simply adopting apps from projection modes, dev once - deliver anywhere, also in non-GAS OEMs)
        3. Introduction to COVESA Automotive AOSP, its advantages and program. 
        4. Unified Push is getting a reality – Demo on how it works.
        5. Call for Participation: bring your ideas to COVESA, we will empower you.
• Droidcon - what else has been submitted - ParadoxCat, see last week.
  TechTalk, potentially + Workshop from appning.
  
  
• BBC was there in our AOSP Entertainment stream last thursday  26.06.2025 Monthly
  Key Takeaways: 
  • Different car makers present a challenge.
  • Interaction models in the car are different to mobile devices - no customer tolerance for friction.
    
  • UX in the car has to be crisp, tight, responsive and fluid as well as introduction and onboarding, login experience is crucial.
  • great apps + great store does not mean the job is done:
    apps need prominent visibility, as customers will not be looking for them in a car.
  • attribution - people have to know they are listening to BBC → logo.
  • today: pure radio still dominant. coming world: mobile devices, everybody brings what they want to listen. more personalisation according to occupancy in the car, e.g..

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