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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 2025-06-30

  • Participants:
  • Droidcon - our COVESA AOSP submission - status:

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

    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. Title Ideas:
        1. „How COVESA empowers 3rd Party App Developers: Bridging Gaps and Building Standards in the Automotive Ecosystem“

        2. 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.

        3. "Driving Standards: How COVESA is Powering the Future of Android Automotive"

        4. "From Gaps to Gears: Accelerating 3rd Party App Integration in Android Automotive"

        5. "Open Roads, Open Source: COVESA’s Journey in Android Automotive"

        6.   "Streamlining App Development in the Automotive Sector: Overcoming Fragmentation and Fostering OEM Collaboration"
        7. "Enhancing App Development: Bridging Gaps and Building Standards in the Automotive Ecosystem"
        8. "Driving Unity: Reducing Friction for App Developers through OEM Best Practices"
        9. "Navigating Challenges: Promoting Standards and Solving Unique OEM Issues in Automotive App Development"
        10. "Empowering App Developers: A Unified Approach to Standards and Collaboration in the Automotive Industry"

        11. It's time to develop apps for Android cars: getting started with COVESA.

      2. 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 (smile) 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..


  • next steps for potential next topics
  • onboarding for customers - discussion continued, if wanted.

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).

Minutes 2025-06-16

  • Participants: COVESA, GM, BMW, Spotify, Remotive Labs, FORD, Paradox Cat, Allianz.
  • Recap App Host → 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 participants.
  • feedback AMM and learnings for next AMM
  • announcement next entertainment meeting on June, 26 with BBC: 26.06.2025 Monthly
  • AOSP data work stream -
    • how to move forward. → would need a core working group to work on the topic based on the presentations we had for the stream.
    • Google discussed extension of vehicle data in the bootcamp.
    • Paradox Cat provided a Kotlin wrapper for the dev workshop: https://github.com/Paradox-Cat-GmbH/KarPropertyManager
    • in the future, topic moved to this AOSP meeting, no extra thursday meetings for the time being.
    • Discussion - ideal would be if car properties would be as well in the Car App Library.

Cancelled Meeting 2025-06-09 (public holiday, e.g. Germany, Pentecost/Whitsun)

Agenda proposal 2025-06-02

Cancelled Meeting 2025-05-26 (public holiday)

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