General Information

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

Weekly Meeting: Monday, 5-6pm CEST (Zoom Link) (Subscribe to Community Calendar to stay up to date)

Slack: https://covesacommunity.slack.com/archives/C05EB6A6J5R

GitHub: https://github.com/COVESA/aosp-app-framework-standardizatiion

Chairs:

• Sabine Hofschen , BMW
• Richard Fernandes , General Motors
• Gabriel Gautron , FORVIA

Compliance statement:

Antitrust
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Open and Royalty-Free
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Meeting Notes 2025

10th February 2025 Preview (tbc)

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

3rd February 2025 Preview (tbc)

• Participants:
• 5-5:30 pm (CEST) General Topics:
  • Push Notifications finalisation
  • AMM organisation
  • Working spaces on confluence for Emulator, Data stream
• 5:30-6:00 pm (CEST) Emulator revisited.

27th January 2025

• 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.

13th January 2025

• 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

• Data workstream
  • Paul will present the initiative in the VSS meeting to get involvement from OEMs
  • Suggestion to have someone present what was already done: 

    link link link

  • Presentation about VSS by BMW 

    link

• Push notifications
  • Sunup
    • Delivered: new distributor => Sunup, 

      codeberg, izzysoft,

      and proposed on frdoid
    • Mentioned on the UP website

       link

    • Added support for Reddis for autopush, modif upstream not in fork
    • Added support for urgency
      • Server
  • Docker compose available to easily deploy the server
    • • Call for testers !
  • Paradoxcat collaborated end of 2024
• Communication:
  • Need to make an article / blog post about it
  • Simon will reference "Contributed by Covesa" on his website

• 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

AOSP: Data Workstream group

Charter