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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
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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 2026

Agenda May 04, 2026

Participants:

Topics and Roundtable:

• Recap AMM Porto

• Meet Radio Ready, Sveriges Radio from Sweden

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 COVESA All Member Meeting l April 22-23, 2026 | Porto, Portugal

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
  COVESA AOSP Hands-On Android OEM VHAL Workshop at the COVESA All Member Meeting 2026 in Porto

  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

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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:
2023 AMM Porto Sessions - COVESAPreview

2023 AMM Porto Showcase - COVESAPreview

2023 AMM Porto Showcase - COVESAPreview

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.

• PIVOT Project and related project: GitHub - bhrg3se/bettervsl: Improved, easy to use version of VSL app in BeamNG. App for researchers purposes. Here you can select which vehicle stats you want to log

• 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:

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

Push Notifications COVESA Blog in preparation

Recap COVESA AOSP Vehicle Data - Wiki Front Page - COVESA, Status 2025-12-08:

• Thanks to Stefan from Allianz and the team involved for providing a description of the Insurance Use Cases!

• ToDo Sabine: Integrate Insurance Use Cases in the Table, High-Level Summary of arguments so far.

• Network of companies like Elektrobit had posts on linkedIn based on CES discussions and presentations.

• Next Steps:

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

  • extract the OEM argumentary

  • present to COVESA Board

  • aim: start a PoC with two use cases in February, might be a good idea to do it in an (online) workshop.

Entertainment Stream to start again in 2026

Planning Spring AMM 2026, April 22-23, 2026, Porto, Portugal:

• COVESA Upcoming and Past Events,

• COVESA All Member Meeting | April 22-23, 2026 | Porto, Portugal,

• COVESA Spring 2026 AMM Call for Participation - Wiki Front Page - COVESA

• Ideas for AOSP Group? besides community update:

  • Results on PoC vehicle data?

  • Workshop on PoCs / Vehicle Data?

  • Dev meeting?

  • follow-up with Google on App Host ?

Roundtable proposal:

What are our / AOSP group´s measures of success for 2026? Which main three criteria would be fulfilled, if
we consider our work successful?

• code

• push applications

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