Android development is going private but Google still wants help from other devs
a year ago
- #AOSP
- #Android Development
- Google will develop Android OS fully in private but will still accept external code contributions.
- External developers can submit patches via AOSP Gerrit or partner Gerrit (for GMS-licensed companies).
- The aosp-main branch will be locked and set to read-only; developers should sync to android-latest-release instead.
- Google will not notify developers about the acceptance or rejection of their proposed changes.
- No changes to the development process for AndroidX (Jetpack support libraries).
- CI builds of aosp-main will stop, but some release branches will still have CI builds.
- Google aims to simplify its development process by reducing merge conflicts between public and internal branches.