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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
Before we begin, we would like to make clear that COVESA is committed to compliance with the antitrust laws in all of its activities, and that it expects all participants to similarly comply with the antitrust laws.  We will not engage in--and members must refrain from--any discussion of, or understandings regarding competitively sensitive topics. If you have any doubts regarding whether a matter is appropriate for discussion, please consult with your antitrust counsel.

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 2026

Agenda Sept 7

Welcome back! We would like to work together with you all on the by then updated proposal of

the AOSP Group Charter and a whitepaper the Co-Chairs are setting up.

No meetings on Aug 10, Aug 17, Aug 24, Aug 31

Agenda Aug 3

Participants:

Topics: latest news from Droidcon - who has been accepted.

Info on plans update AOSP Group Charter, AOSP Whitepaper

Minutes Jul 27, 2026

Participants: GM, BMW, Appning, Appsfactory, Geotab, Allianz

Short Roundtable - no news from Droidcon until Jul 27

MinutesJul 20, 2026

Participants: ? GM, BMW, COVESA, who else?

Short Roundtable

Minutes Jul 13, 2026

Participants: COVESA, Appning, HARMAN, GM, BMW, RemotiveLabs, ParadoxCat,

Roundtable:

• Droidcon

Minutes July 6, 2026

Participants: COVESA, Appning, HARMAN, appsfactory, GM, BMW, RemotiveLabs, Geotab, Allianz

Roundtable:

• Droidcon - deadline had been extended to Jul 5, 2027

• Droidcon prep for OEM VHAL talk and hands-on prep.

• in-app updates follow-up. will be published on Github, then can be tested.

• contents for AOSP whitepaper, based on the old charta COVESA AOSP Group Charter - Wiki Front Page - COVESA
  look out for topics which are doable in the scope this group provides. Break down larger topics.
  ideas: compatibility? map providers? sharing best practises?

No meeting on June 29, 2026 (public holiday week).

Minutes June 22, 2026

Participants: COVESA, Appning, BMW, appsfactory, Paradox Cat, HARMAN

Topics and Roundtable:

• Follow - up Droidcon -

  • who plans to contribute to Call for papers → might be appning,

  • OEM VHAL, Android 17/COVESA, appsfactory best practise app, HARMAN.

  • OEM VHAL demo → which Android version on the tablet ?

• Android 17 and COVESA

• Follow - up In-app updates, maven vs. github actions

• Idea for a COVESA AOSP whitepaper, based on the old charta COVESA AOSP Group Charter - Wiki Front Page - COVESA
  add a vision, roadmap, values which then can be presented to the board -

Minutes June 15, 2026

Participants: COVESA, GM, Appning, appsfactory, BMW, Paradox Cat, Allianz

Topics and Roundtable:

Droidcon status

info on Capabilities Project  Capabilities Project - Seating Capabilities - Clean - Wiki Front Page - COVESA

Minutes June 8, 2026

Participants: COVESA, GM, Appsfactory, Appning by FORVIA, HARMAN, BMW, Geotab

Topics and Roundtable

• Roundtable.

• Android developer verification  |  Android Developers

• AutoTech event in Detroit,

  • a lot of people at the event.

  • RadioReady demo at AutoTech - deep links discussion.
    https://radiodns.org/,
    https://www.radioready.info/

• InApp updates & SDK → follow up next week.
  repo access via Paul. how to manage releases, publisher. publisher adds guidelines.
  look to emulator: https://github.com/COVESA/aosp_device_covesa_emulator
  https://github.com/COVESA/aosp_platform-manifest/actions
  
  

• Call for papers closing July: Automotive Summit at Droidcon Berlin 2026 on 7-9 October: 

  https://www.nextappcon.com/android-auto

  droidCon Agenda | next.app devcon example agenda from last year.

  Call for papers: next.app devcon: Call for Speakers @ Sessionize.com
  
  

  • OEM VHAL talk/workshop application.

  • booth discussions.

  • in-app updates as an idea to show. app implementing the sdk. something needed on OEM side?

  • appsfactory sample app idea incl. in-app updates.
    
    

• AOSP App Host Q3/2026 - discussion.

no meeting on June 1 (still part of school holidays in Bavaria,
AutoTech event in Detroit on June 3).

no meeting on May 25 (public holiday parts of Europe and US)

Minutes May 18, 2026

Participants: COVESA, GM, appning, HARMAN, BMW, …

Topics and Roundtable:

• Automotive AOSP App Host follow-up.

• Planning COVESA attending Droidcon/NextDevCon Berlin,

  • https://www.nextappcon.com/android-auto

  • 2026, Oct. 7-9. Closing July 01.

  • potential Topics: Android SDV, AOSP Standardisation, AI in the UI

• Potential next steps from the group, to be discussed:

  • COVESA Blog on OEM VHAL at AMM Porto,

  • join aosp.org and discord channel on OEM VHAL

  • develop a roadmap/new charta of AOSP topics → communicate in a Blog, at NextDevCon and other meetings.

Minutes May 11, 2026

Participants: COVESA, GM, Sveriges Radio, Appsfactory, Appning by FORVIA, HARMAN, BMW, Geotab, Paradox Cat, Allianz

Topics and Roundtable

• Meet Tomas Granryd, Sveriges Radio from Sweden

  • aim: richer digital experience.

  • Started in 2024 with Playbook. relaunch as RADIO READY in June 2025.
    currently 40+ members. Feb 2026: readioready.info launches.

  • Three main principles: Broadcast radio + discoverable Broadcaster apps + reliable Voice assistants.

  • Wanted: best of both worlds. seamless experience - like e.g. during listening to FM radio, press a button, get additional content (in addition to listening).

  • like get to the view of an already installed app on pushing a button. installing only in park mode. playing only from one source.

  • user journey: on pressing the button, app source would play.

  • customize test radio app built on standard Android Automotive media framework, this app could include these kind of links depending on implementation by the OEMs.
    would need an OEM who would be interested. → OEMs, please tell if you are interested. which OEM would be interested in a PoC.

  • is something like that on GAS already?
    
    

• Recap AMM Porto Entertainment stream - see presentation at AMM, ideas for further steps:

  • reference implementation of e.g. an audio app. like seamless experience from looking a video during parking and switching to audio mode during driving.

  • see apps from droidcon berlin 2025 workshop: GitHub - faurecia-aptoide/android-droidcon-berlin-2025-workshop · GitHub

  • maybe transfer this to a COVESA github.

  • discussion.

  • example: Spotify playlists to encourage safer driving | Allianz Insurance

  • start with a templated app.

  • how would it be tested on a COVESA emulator. devs would use COVESA SDK and then test on store emulators.

Minutes May 04, 2026

Participants: COVESA, GM, Appning, BMW, HARMAN, Geotab, aosp org.

Topics and Roundtable:

• Recap AMM Porto, planning follow-ups, slides see COVESA All Member Meeting ~ April 22-23, 2026 - Wiki Front Page - COVESA:

  • Community update

  • OEM VHAL → good visited, thank you!

    • follow-ups like integrating the playground, integrate with as many running projects as possible.

    • maintainer core group? who would contribute?

    • AOSP devs idea: First, find your community

      We could post an RFC on the aosp-devs automotive channel

      Join our discord here: https://discord.gg/hH59SPKYv8

    • define a roadmap.

    • reach out to JasPar → maybe do a PoC and show it. https://yoriito.dev/

    • follow-up next week.

  • Entertainment → more guidelines for app devs, good.

  • in-app updates, geocoding → in discusssion.

• Teaming up with AI group?

• Teaming up with Payment group? → see slides, whitepaper and poc, meeting this wednesday. wallet. commercial-vehicles/reports/vc-driver-license-global-status-2025.md at main · COVESA/commercial-vehicles · GitHub

• Planning COVESA AOSP at Droidcon Berlin nextappcon

  • https://www.nextappcon.com/android-auto

  • 2026, Oct. 7-9. Closing July 01.

  • potential Topics: Android SDV, AOSP Standardisation, AI in the UI

  • who could be contacted from the organizers at COVESA AOSP

  • Harman and Appning normally are there.

  • which OEMs could be speaking?

  • maybe connect to JasPar?

  • meet up with co-chairs. do it as a COVESA initiative. COVESA booth - and who would staff it?

  • → meeting organisers with co-chairs+harman.

  • seemingly moving more emphasis to platform instead of app dev like last year.

• public parts: https://github.com/googlecloudplatform/horizon-sdv

• Android 17 code expected by end of June.

• Meet Radio Ready, Sveriges Radio from Sweden → next time?

No meeting on April 27, 2026

No meeting on April 20, 2026 - AMM Porto week

AMM Porto - this time, join the AOSP sessions online, if you cannot be there in person:

agenda, please see https://www.eventleaf.com/e/ammporto#ss

to join online on April 22, please see COVESA Common Meeting Schedule - Wiki Front Page - COVESA,
we give it a try to offer a dial-in session to the AOSP Sessions as well, using our good old Zoom dial-in from above.

Minutes Apr 13, 2026

Participants: COVESA, Appning by Forvia, GM, BMW, Paradox Cat, Allianz

Topics and Roundtable:

• AMM Porto orga topics →

  • we organize a dial-in for those who cannot attend in person, see above

  • Jose from Appning will bring a MINI to the dev workshop for all app devs who would attend the dev workshop

• join us at the upcoming handson Android OEM VHAL workshop at the AMM: April 22, 2026, Porto

  The workshop will address how an AOSP‑based VHAL can contribute to a more
  consistent and scalable vehicle data layer, while supporting OEM control where required.

  For further details, please see the blog on
  https://covesa.global/aosp-handson-android-oem-vhal-workshop-at-covesa-amm/

  You are very welcome to spread the news on LinkedIn:
  https://www.linkedin.com/posts/covesa-alliance_covesaamm-connectedvehicles-androidaut[…]edium=member_ios&rcm=ACoAAAAzFw0B2ssB8eVQIz7IMZWMCRKsJnu3diA

   

No meeting on April 6, 2026 - public holiday Easter Monday

Minutes Mar 30, 2026

Participants: COVESA, Appning, BMW, Appsfactory, Paradox Cat, Geotab

Topics and Roundtable:

• OEM-VHAL Workshop in Porto

• Ideas to communicate OEM-VHAL workshop in Porto → COVESA Blog.

• Input for official Porto agenda on https://www.eventleaf.com/e/ammporto#spk

  • April 22, 10:00-11:00: Jan Kubovy, BMW: OEM AOSP-based VHAL introduction:
    As vehicles become software‑defined, OEMs might want to expose while at the the same time fully control reliable, consistent vehicle data to insurance partners, fleet operators, mobility services, ADAS analytics, and in‑car digital applications. Today in Android, an OEM can offer either all vehicle data via OEM signature or close none at all. Today, every OEM solves this differently — resulting in fragmentation, high integration costs, and slow time‑to‑market.

    An OEM AOSP‑based VHAL offers a harmonized and scalable way to publish core vehicle data across models and regions using Android’s native Vehicle HAL framework.
    Participate in this Kickoff session to see a live emulator presentation of an OEM VHAL showcase and get familiar with the open source code which is provided.
    Contribute in this workshop your ideas on valuable OEM Use Cases and work on the VHAL signals needed as well as on the next steps that have to be taken.
    
    

  • April 22, 11:00-11:45: Chris Goebel, appsfactory:
    AOSP Entertainment Workstream: Why the Android Automotive App Ecosystem Isn’t taking off - and what we can do about it:
    Android Automotive promised an open ecosystem for third-party apps and new in-car entertainment experiences. However, adoption has been slower than anticipated. The number of available apps remains limited and many developers hesitate to invest due to unclear ROI, fragmentation across OEM implementations, and ecosystem uncertainties.

    This session will explore the main blockers preventing the ecosystem from growing and discuss where collaboration within COVESA could help reduce fragmentation and improve developer incentives.

    In addition, the session will gather input from members on the future role of the Entertainment Workstream and potential areas of focus moving forward.

    • Overview of the current state of the Android Automotive entertainment ecosystem.

    • Why developers are not building Android Automotive apps.

    • Gathering input from members on priorities and potential next steps.
      
      

  • April 22, 11:50-12:30: AOSP Co-Chairs: Future working model of the AOSP group - future topics and participation:
    Discuss future topics like e.g. Geocoding, iMAP updates, App Host, in-app updates and others.
    Review our Group Charta and decide what to do next.
    Open discussion on who would actively participate and contribute in the future. Help us to get on track with all what will be needed from the AOSP group in 2026 and 2027.
    
    

  • April 22, 14:00-17:30: Jan Kubovy, BMW and AOSP Co-Chairs: Dev Workshop in the Showroom:

    • OEM VHAL PoCs coding as decided in the morning session “OEM VHAL introduction”

    • AOSP App Prototyping
      
      
      
      

Minutes Mar 23, 2026

Participants: COVESA, Appning, GM, BMW, Appsfactory, RemotiveLabs

Topics and Roundtable:

• decision on Porto AMM, April 2026: AMM Porto, April 22 - Workshop planning - Wiki Front Page - COVESA

• prep slides for community update → status to be shared next monday.

• Upcoming Entertainment collaboration with Radio Ready, to be planned, e.g. on May 4 during the AOSP.

Minutes Mar 16, 2026

Participants: COVESA, Appning, GM, BMW, Appsfactory

Topics and Roundtable:

• update on Porto AMM, April 2026:

  • WIP AMM Porto, April 22 - Workshop planning - Wiki Front Page - COVESA

  • Entertainment workshop: AMM Porto Session Preparation - Wiki Front Page - COVESA

  • OEM VHAL workshop: OEM-VHAL session preparation (Porto AMM, April 2026) - Wiki Front Page - COVESA

  •  

Minutes Mar 9, 2026

Participants: COVESA, Appning, BMW, RemotiveLabs

Topics and Roundtable:

• update on Porto AMM, April 2026: WIP AMM Porto, April 22 - Workshop planning - Wiki Front Page - COVESA

Minutes Mar 2, 2026

Participants: COVESA, Appning by FORVIA, GM, BMW, Volvo Group Trucks, Appsfactory, Paradox Cat

Topics and Roundtable:

Minutes Feb 23, 2026

Participants: Chris Simmonds, COVESA, Geotab, GM, Volvo Group Trucks Technology, Appning by Forvia, RemotiveLabs, Appsfactory

Topics:

Roundtable:

Minutes Feb 16, 2026

Participants: COVESA, BMW, GM, Volvo Group Trucks Technology, Appning by Forvia, RemotiveLabs

Topics:

Update Porto AMM, April 2026

AOSP Group Slot will be on Apr 22, 2026 after the keynote until lunch, i.e. about 3 hours including breaks, i.e. max 180 mins. 9h30am-12h30am

photos last Porto AMM:
https://covesa.smugmug.com/2023-COVESA-AMM-Porto-Portugal-April-25-27th/2023-AMM-Porto-Sessions/i-SNT5hgC/A

https://covesa.smugmug.com/2023-COVESA-AMM-Porto-Portugal-April-25-27th/2023-AMM-Porto-Showcase/i-gTZNvS3/A

https://covesa.smugmug.com/2023-COVESA-AMM-Porto-Portugal-April-25-27th/2023-AMM-Porto-Showcase/i-Vs7kFFz/A

Proposed Agenda - to be adapted, to be finalized until March, 9:

• 20 mins community update

• 40 mins Entertainment Workshop - Chris? include e.g. Spotify (might be there), Radio Ready

• 40 mins VSS-based VHAL PoCs

• 40 mins AOSP devs Workshop incl. AOSP Host strategy.

• 40 mins whats next, our goals for 2026 and AOSP group charta workshop.

• Testing? / Dev Workshop? → Critical Techworks CTW ? (Sabine asks Florian Hirschmann). where? no other rooms at the hotel. showcase room?

Discussion on VSS-Based VHAL

• we would need a high-level argumentary, based on the proposed use cases.

• M365 Copilot Summary in Core Arguments for a VSS-based VHAL in AOSP - Wiki Front Page - COVESA

• further work needed to nail the key arguments and business opportunities down, who would participate in this?

Roundtable:

• Automotive AOSP Host expected in Q1.

• VDM meeting: see #general channel on slack:
  Join us on 26th of February at 3pm CET / 9am ET / 6am PT. (See Community Calendar or attached .ics file)
  Are you a Subject Matter Expert?   Do you have high value vehicle related use cases that you would like to see realized? Just want to solve vehicle related problems? Come get involved
  We are seeking collaboration on and contribution of meaningful vehicle adjacent use cases and supporting models in the Vehicle Data Model (VDM) project.
  The Simple Semantic Data Modeling approach and tooling is ready for use.  Let's use and mature it together while growing the model ecosystem to solve real industry problems.
  This session will include a demo showing how to get involved and Q&A.

• https://pivot-auto.org/ and related project: https://github.com/bhrg3se/bettervsl

• payment group meeting every other week → might be interesting for us. same time as AOSP monday meeting.

Minutes 2026-02-09

Participants: BMW, GM, Appning by Forvia, RemotiveLabs, Volvo Trucks VGTT, Elektrobit, Allianz, Paradox Cat

Topics

• Recap meeting with Radio Ready

  • dates back to COVESA meeting Gothenburg.

  • broadcast radio standardisation.

  • now private radio stations also wish to participate.

  • might participate at AMM.

  • e.g. capability to jump from the radio sender to the app belonging to the radio sender.

• planning Porto, see below:, who takes the lead and organises → we will talk to Paul and in the co-chair meeting:

  • 30 mins co-chair AOSP community update - presentation and discussion

  • 60 mins Entertainment Workshop - Chris? include e.g. Spotify, Radio Ready

  • 60 mins VSS-based VHAL PoCs

  • 60 mins AOSP devs Workshop 

  • 60 mins AOSP group charta and Backlog workshop.

  • ? Geofencing.... extra?

• Roundtable.

Minutes 2026-02-02

Participants

COVESA, GM, appning, Appsfactory, Volvo Trucks, FORD, Paradox Cat, Allianz

Topics - Roundtable:

• Planning Porto Workshops - additional registration might make sense to see the interest upfront:

  • 1h for Entertainment, Onboarding topic (maybe with Spotify). → chairs to ask Spotify.
    together with Harman (Covesa will talk to them) and Appning.

  • 1h for VSS-based VHAL workshop and PoCs.

  • 1h ? Chris Simmonds - AOSP - chairs to reach out.

  • dev Workshop like we did? might it make sense?

  • Geofencing ? Geocoding etc. → identify needs / brainstorming.

  • Revisit our charter of the AOSP group, our aims for 2026.

• Measures of success for 2026 ? Revisited.

• 30 mins for CES contact from Sveriges Radio → this wednesday or thursday → we'll keep you posted next week.

Minutes 2026-01-26

Participants: COVESA, GM, Volvo Trucks, BMW, Appning by Forvia, Appsfactory, Paradox Cat, RemotiveLabs, Allianz

Topics:

• App Host Update planned for Q1/2026

  • updates might be planned only twice a year from Google → we might have access later than it is ready.
    every second quarter.

  • next update contains media template update, v8 of the app host.
    
    

• Entertainment Stream News

  • entertainment provider groups are being talked to at the moment

  • call for topics, if anybody is aware.

  • date will be communicated on monday meeting or use second half of this monday meeting.
    
    

• Planning Spring AMM 2026, April 22-23, 2026, Porto, Portugal → getting more workshop sessions this time.

  • VSS-based VHAL and use cases etc.

  • maybe session together with Chris Simmonds? AOSP group

  • entertainment workshop, like with Spotify, European Broadcast Union or other content providers.

  • some place showing Push Notifications up and running, e.g. Zoom, maybe Teams.

  • ....

  • please come back to us with workshop ideas and presentation ideas.
    
    

• Continue COVESA AOSP Vehicle Data - Wiki Front Page - COVESA:

  • Summary on Vehicle Data Stream: aim is to find two or more OEMs to contribute to a PoC with
    two different use cases, like insurance use case and another.

  • please see also the table AOSP VHAL: Evaluation Table of Use Cases - Wiki Front Page - COVESA

  • planning the next Board meeting → argumentary out of Evaluation Table of Use Cases to be extracted.
    
    

• Push Notifications COVESA Blog status → not started yet.
  
  

• we might continue Roundtable:

• • code

  • push applications

  • bridge the gap GAS to AOSP for the App Host.

  • PoCs on vehicle data.

No meeting on 2026-01-19, happy public holiday

Minutes 2026-01-12

Participants: BMW, Appning by FORVIA, Volvo Trucks, FORD, Allianz, Paradox Cat, RemotiveLabs, Elektrobit

Topics:

Welcome back and Happy New Year, everyone!

CES 2026 recap --> good participation at COVESA networking event