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General Information

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

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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 proposal 2025-03-17

• Participants: 

Meeting notes 2025-03-10

• Participants: 
• Invitation to follow up hands on session to "deploy an app to faurecia/harmann store" this friday, March 14 (Florian H., BMW):
  • Will be published open source, presentation of the results in the next COVESA session
  • Invite will be shared in the minutes and in the community calendar
  • Potential participants: BMW, Cariad, Allianz, Paradox Cat
  • Goal: Release an App with COVESA SDK to Appning/Harmann Store

    From 09:30 - ca. 15:00 CET

    Location:

    Quartett mobile GmbH
    Walter-Gropius-Straße 17
    D-80807 München

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• AMM agenda working on/aligning:
  
  • COVESA AOSP AMM technical sessions - Prep Co-Chairs
    
  • https://www.eventleaf.com/e/ammberlin
  • AMM 202505 Technical Track Session Proposals
• Work streams:
  • AOSP Emulator → see later today in Agenda proposal 2025-

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• • 03-10
  • AOSP Entertainment → Content provider HAYU insights for next time. Back button discussion.
  • AOSP Data → Presentation Volvo. Working on Android Vehicle Data Working Session AMM 2025

Meeting notes 2025-03-03

• Participants: Valtech Mobility, Appning by FORVIA, Ford, Forvia, BMW, Ford, GM, Elektrobit, Tietoevery, RemotiveLab, Paradox Cat
• AMM agenda
  
  • Multiple proposals received for talks
  • Looking for live demos (push, emulator, ...)
• Push notification
  • Pull request was merged link
  • Instructions in the readme, as well as sample app link
  • Live demo by Viktor Mukha @ Paradox Cat
• Entertainment
  • HAYU (NBCUniversal’s reality TV streaming service)! invited thos Thursday March 6th 5PM-6pm CET ==> Join us!
  • Detail in COVESA's Slack link

Meeting notes 2025-02-24

• Participants: Forvia, Allianz, 2net, RemotiveLabs, ParadoxCat, , GM, Gracenote, Appning by Forvia, Mavi, Valtech Mobility, Tietoevry, Paradox Cat, Bosch, Ford, Endava, BMW
• Push notification
  • Marketing / blog post: need update
  • COVESA AOSP SDK
    • Pull request
      • Changes proposed by Appning were reviewed by Simon, that requested some changes
      • Will be reviewed this week by Appning,
    • Hosting:
      • Decision: Public, on Maven
    • Structure: one SDK / feature vs 1 SDK for all features
      • Decision: 1 SDK for all features in the short term (pro: BMW)
      • When adding more features, will be reconsidered (pro: Appning)
    • How to release
      • Decision: use Github action
      • Appning to create an issue to expose push notification as a jar
      • Owner: will ask Simon
      • Covesa SDK requirements:
    • Need input from Paul
    • Covesa SDK now mentioned on the aosp-dev.org website! => https://aosp-devs.org/code.html?mwg_rnd=8777906
• Entertainment
  • Now a monthly meeting
  • Meetings notes need to be updated
  • Monthly meeting now
• AMM: Presentation Appning x app challenge?
• Start a discussion on requirements for a COVESA SDK in general?
  (e.g. on https://github.com/COVESA/covesa-aosp-sdk/discussions or on a subpage on this WIKI?)
  • ==> Need nput from Paul ?

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.
  • Target date for merge request "asap".

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/

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    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

• Participants:
• tbd input Entertainment group (as envisaged in Entertainment work stream on January, 23th)

Agenda 2025-02-03 (tbc)

• Participants:
• 5-5:30 pm (CEST) General Topics:
  • Push Notifications finalisation:  
    • 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/
        
        Image Added

      • 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):
  
  • Push notifications
  • SDK
  • Automotive host:
    • explanation: for templated apps that can be used while driving, there is a Car app library for e.g. Point of Interest apps. the automotive host on IVI renders the apps.
    • challenge at the moment: mismatch AOSP vs. GAS release.
      for the gap, see release notes: https://developer.android.com/jetpack/androidx/releases/car-app
    • solutions to solve the challenge could be
      • update from Google
      • restrain API level for developers
      • build add-ons on top of AOSP host.
  • Add open source map like open street map, as Automotive host doesn't render maps
  • Data workstream requirements like authentication, system service.
  • From COVESA: building and hosting the images of the emulator,
    ideas:
    • https://crave.io/ allows for open source instances
    • Gerrit instance?
  • next Steps:
    • check with Crave
    • document what is needed (→ new space with this confluence)
    • meet again next week.
  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

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• 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

Meeting notes from 2024 and 2023:

• 2024 Automotive AOSP App Framework Standardization Expert Group

• 2023 Automotive AOSP App Framework Standardization Expert Group

Entertainment group

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Charter 

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