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:

• Melina Mascolo, BMW

• @Richard Fernandes , General Motors

• @gabriel.gautron , FORVIA

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Antitrust
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Meeting Notes 2023

4th December 2023 - Agenda

• Participants: BMW, GM, Mercedes, Forvia, Harman, RemotiveLabs, Hyundai Mobis India, Geotab, mavi.io, Profilence, Elektrobit

• BMW/Maxi to provide overview of Push Notification Workshop goal (including what to be prepared for and who to bring to the Workshop)
  → Will be published before Christmas on Wiki

• Push Notification Workshop agenda:

  • Mobis and Mercedes to provide feedback on current proposal.

  • Does Jan 29th, 2024 work for the group?

    • Confirmed and agreed with the team (Time: 4-6PM/10AM-12PM)

• External 360 Camera feedback.

  • Feedback from Auto OEM and suppliers.

    • Two sets of images - individual external camera or stitched images from the cameras.

      • Need additional discussion, to be reviewed next year.

• Round table discussions

27th November 2023 - Agenda

• Participants: BMW, GM, Ford, Mercedes, Forvia, Harman, L&T Technology Services, Bosch, RemotiveLabs, Hyundai Mobis India, Geotab, Profilence, mavi.io

• Feedback from Mercedes on Camera API discussion (360 degree property)

  • Link to discussion: https://developer.android.com/reference/android/hardware/camera2/CameraCharacteristics#AUTOMOTIVE_LENS_FACING

    • Action Item: Auto OEMs to investigate if the external 360 degree camera is accessible for 3rd Party app developers.

• Who is planning to join CES 2024 and agenda.

  • Please follow up with Mike Nunnery by December 1st, 2023.

• Joint date for push notification workshop → Does doodle work for everyone? Any preferred days in January?

  • Tentative date: January 29th, 2024 (2-3h). Need team agreement.

  • @All: Please confirm this date until next Monday

• Meeting schedule for the remainder of the year.

  • Last meeting for this group: December 4th, 2023. Regular meetings to begin January 15th, 2024. 

• Round table discussions.

  • Harman will publish their emulator in GitHub and give feedback next Monday, when it will be uploaded there.

  • Next steps: OEMs/Apps to check out emulator, identify gaps, joint workshop, aligning who will be responsible for which extensions.

20th November 2023 - Agenda

• Participants: BMW, GM, Mercedes, Hyundai Mobis, Faurecia Aptoide

• Bi-weekly new time slot at 1pm (Germany), 7am (Detroit), 9pm (Tokyo), 4am (Los Angeles) to enable Honda to participate
  → Works for everyone?

  • No Concerns from the group.

• BMW push notifications update

  • Maxi shared a presentation

• Hyundai Mobis push notifications update

  • Umang shared a presentation:

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  • Chairs to have a follow up meeting to bring Hyundai Mobis up to speed.

• January: Push notifications workshop
  → Enable OEMs to bring in experts

  • Looking for feedback from the group in the next meeting

• Newcomers updates

• Exploring synergies with in-vehicle payment group

• Are there round table discussions discussion points?

  • Mercedes/Max to provide an update in the next meeting.

13th November 2023

Today's meeting is cancelled.

6th November 2023