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AGL Roadmap

The official AGL Roadmap is maintained in Jira. This link will show the latest project list in Jira. More information on how AGL uses Jira for project management can be found here.

2019 Roadmap/ Workplan from SAT

  • Happy Halibut and Itchy Icefish on Yocto 2.6 (thud)
  • Components to move from agl-devel to agl-extras
    • 4a
  • Review Reference Hardware System Architecture document and consider its implications for the software architecture.
  • Move RHSA to doc site.
  • Finish the documentation site improvements and increase the amount of documentation by 100%
  • Move to groups.io
  • Add video support to mediaplayer binding.
  • Video player and in-vehicle video architecture that allow third-party plug-ins, rear view camera, Autonomous vehicles, encrypted data such as widevine (from Google) for Netflix, Hulu, Android, etc.
  • Finish AGL spec 2.0
  • Web App Manager maturity
  • Speech API maturity
  • Home Screen and Window Manager re-architecture
  • Instrument Cluster reference device improvements and maturity
  • Create Telematics reference device
  • New reference board for 2019? CES 2020 board should be M3 again or move to H3? Need information from RHSA.
  • Smartphone connectivity - no OS solution that allows integration of proprietary solutions such as CarPlay or Android Auto. We do not have all of the components (video and audio especially) that are required for these integrations. What do we need to add?

From App FW and Security EG

  • HTML5 apps
    • HTML5 home screen
    • Chromium
  • Security workflow. Now that we have the building blocks in place, turn on security and put in place a mechanism for developers to sign applications, load them.
  • Define the list of privileges we are going to enforce in the security model.
  • FF-PARTIAL Running apps not as root/ multi-user
  • FF-PARTIAL Distinction between platform services (e.g., nfc, telephone) and user services that run inside a user context (e.g., media player and lightmedia scanner)
  • Changes necessary at binder level for V2C (SSL transport)
  • FF-PARTIAL Application signing and installation mechanism
    • FF-READY Mechanism for checking signature is in place.
    • Require all apps to be signed in GG
    • Developer workflow is needed for managing keys
    • Development mode and Production mode for app management
  • Secure applications running on a remote device such as mobile phone or tablet that are rendered on the IVI system.
  • FF-READY Binder APIv3 (enable dynamic APIs)
  • Improved Developer workflow for debugging apps including
    • FF-PARTIAL Round trip download/debug/fix/download apps.
    • FF-PARTIAL Supervision daemon for apps and services for development mode. Allows a developers to have a central place monitor IPC in real time. Builds on the current monitor service that is available for binders. Extends its availability to startup and allows more general monitoring without requiring detailed knowledge of what is available in a specific binder.
  • Task manager app to allow developers to see what tasks/process are running in an app. Allow for killing apps.
    • Review AGL spec 1.0 to determine what requirements are there for managing home screen and apps. Something like iphone where a double-tap on home button allows swiping up of apps to kill them.
  • Terminal app on home screen
  • Introduce resource widgets to share content/ resources across multiple apps.
  • App Launcher for web apps and strategy for managing code that can be downloaded on the fly by HTML5
  • App Framework API and strategy to stop non-privilege apps that are currently in the background (e.g., SIGTERM). Do those apps save their state so they can restart quickly?
  • App Framework binder communications shall be able to manage return from sleep mode.
  • Connection glitches in multi-ECU system shall be properly handled.
  • XDS features
    • FF-READY v1.1.0 - targeted release date: AMM (2018 February 20th)
      • Board console/terminal integration within XDS dashboard
      • Documentation improvement of debug section
    • FF-READY v6.0.0 - targeted release date: ALS (2018 June 20th)
      • Monitoring integration
    • v7.0.0
      • Improved development cycle (based on partial Widget installation)
      • First step to support package manager for SDKs (Yomo)
  • GG Priorities for App FW
    • Complete application lifecycle definition to prepare for all apps moving to new app lifecycle in HH
      • Background app awareness on the home screen - (e.g. Current song on media player, phone call in progress, # messages unread)
      • Kill apps individually from life cycle manager
      • Need to define state diagram for app life cycle
  • HTML5 app support as necessary
  • Multi-user use case
  • API for abstraction of hardware mechanism for signing apps, packages, etc.
  • Headless/ Telematics use case
  • Unit testing for app framework
  • Modularization of application-framework-main to improve key management, maintainability and building across multiple platforms.
    • Split off the keys from the App FW. Currently are here
    • Allow keys to be changed by the device developers - git repo and recipe for keys
    • Library (or binding) to plug in key management to the app FW.
    • Reference implementation will use the file system as the key store. Can be swapped for a trusted environment by a device creator at a later time.
    • Sign at build time in AGL CI system with a check at run time

From Graphics EG

  • Graphic
    • Finish Window Manager and Homescreen work
      • Home Screen API / service
        • UI for Qt
        • UI for HTML5
      • High level API for virtual keyboard in english and Japanese
      • Pop-up support
        • Virtual keyboard placement and removal
        • Alerts
      • Focus management for out of focus apps
      • Multi-resolution display support.
        • Fix scaling issues across different display sizes
        • Landscape vs. portrait
  • Add new apps to home screen (not hardcoded) - SPEC-1734
  • Management of apps that overflow the screen - slider or multiple pages or folders
  • Improved secondary display support
  • Transition Animation
    • Need to define use cases and requirements
    • Handled by Qt Compositor if we continue to use it for demos.
    • Will need to rethink if we switch compositors
  • Hardware plane management; Rear view camera, smart phone connection,,,
  • User interactive response; vibration of screen, beep,,,
  • Upstream to Wayland/Weston
  • xdg protocol
  • Waltham protocol for internode display
  • Investigate replacement for Qt; HTML5, GTK+,,,,
  • Audio
  • FF-READY High Level audio API
  • FF-READY AGL Advanced Audio Agent (4A)
  • FF-PARTIAL Make PulseAudio optional
  • Switch to Bluez / Alsa for Bluetooth audio
  • Speech and Text to Speech Services collaboration
  • Policy management between mic input and Media player output
  • Questions for EG from SAT:
    • Do we remove support for IVI protocol is favor of XDG?
      • Answer: No. Cannot deprecate IVI protocol unless extensions to XDG are made.
  • What is the roadmap for Wayland/Weston versions for 2018?
    • SAT recommends following Yocto.

From Connectivity EG

Updated 06 Feb 2020

  • Vehicle Signaling
    • Factory programming of CAN message set based on final vehicle configuration. Requires multiple vehicle message dictionaries to be present in the code.
    • Content encryption within vehicle for streaming services or Blue Ray content.
    • Better support for translation from CANoe to AGL message sets.
    • Any other standard message set tools that we should support?
  • Bluetooth improvements
    • Add support for proprietary chip stacks based on work done on other projects in support of AGL. Supports production readiness.
    • Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) support
  • Tuner
    • Update tuner API based on Denso-Ten gap analysis.
  • WiFi improvements
    • AP Mode
  • Telephony app improvements
    • Need to do more extensive testing of the Telephony app now that audio is working better.
  • Network management binding
    • Conman is probably not appropriate for production use cases, but we need requirements from Tier Ones and OEMS. Do we switch to network manager or wait for someone to push code to us that already works in a production environment?
    • Hardwired connection to telephone for Telematics use cases
    • Multiple simultaneous telephone support (wired + BT) for telematics use cases
    • User profiles to allow authorized users to configure interfacing

From V2X EG

  • Kickoff EG

From Virtualization EG

  • AGL virtualization support (HOST)
    • Add support for open-source hypervisors in meta-egvirt for both ARM and Intel AGL platforms. In this way, at compilation time it will be possible to select the hypervisor to use
      • Finalize KVM support (today available on Renesas RCar-M3 only)
      • Add support for other solutions such as XEN and Jailhouse
    • Write documentation and guides to use AGL as a host system
  • AGL virtualization support (GUEST)
    • Add official support for AGL to be run as a guest on ARM and Intel CPU architectures
    • Add support for XEN, KVM, Jailhouse
      • Add support to automatically build pre-built binaries for each solution, in a way that users can directly download the latest stable version
    • Write documentation and guides to use AGL as a guest system
  • Build a a graphical virtual machine manager application for AGL
    • Create (or extend) a tool to handle guest operating systems from the AGL Graphic User Interface
    • Add support to start and stop guests, or to attach USB device to a guest OS
  • VMs/AGL profiles communication
    • define, design and develop a common API to enable communication/interaction between different VMs/AGL profiles
  • CES2019 demonstrator integration
    • include virtualization in the CES2019 demo, in a way that all the new features developed in 2018 are demonstrated
      • showcase at least two operating systems running concurrently (e.g., two AGL profiles), interacting and exchanging data with each other

From CIAT EG

  • Improved publishing of test results
    • Email Reports
      • improve format and feedback to gerrit
  • Additional tests
    • Applications
      • build and test different wgt types (normal, debug, test, coverage)
  • Fuego integration
    • Support to run tests as lava jobs (from within Fuego)
  • Images in build matrix
    • more variants! (plan is to use qemux86-64 for this)
      • e.g. sota enabled
      • agl-demo-platform-html5 (html5-only UI)
      • cluster profile/image
      • telematic profile/image

From Navi EG

  • AGL Navigation API
    • Complete OSS implementation of Navi API 1.0 by ALS2018(FF release).
    • Complete documentation of Navi API 1.0 by ALS2018(FF release).
  • Ref. Apps
    • Navigation app divide to Navi service and Navi Apps.
    • Text to Speech Services collaboration
      • Guide voice (TTS function using) migrate to AGL standard.

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Methodology

  • Original project list was started in 2014 maintained here. The projects were rated by the steering committee at that time from 1 - 5 stars.
  • Project list was updated in 2015 - still on wiki.
  • Feb 2016
    • Reviewed list with Expert Groups, System Architecture Team, and Advisory Board prior to All Member Meeting
    • Rated projects from 1 to 5 Stars
    • Roadmap is based on moving ahead with 4 and 5 Star Projects
    • Roadmap moved to AGL Jira.

5 Star Projects

Current Five-Star projects as listed in Jira

4 Star Projects

Current Four-Star projects as listed in Jira

3 Star Projects

Current Three-Star projects as listed in Jira

Unrated/Low Rated Projects

Current Unrated or Low Rated projects as listed in Jira

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