Last year, I’ve worked on Chromium and Web Application Manager on AGL platform with some fellow Igalian colleagues. Our goal was to support Chromium with upstream Wayland port and Web Application Manager. Although we faced a lot of challenges, such as porting them to AGL framework, handling SMACK on Chromium multiprocess architecture, supporting wayland ivi protocol on Chromium and so on, we completed our goal and showed a demo at CES 2019.
This year, I gave a talk about our work on AGL at several events such as AGL All Member Meeting, BlinkOn10 in Canada and Automotive Linux Summit 2019.
For Automotive Linux Summit 2019 in Tokyo last week, my colleague, Lorenzo, and I attended the event and managed our Igalia booth.
Come to the #igalia booth at the Sponsor Showcase to check our demos and get updated about our latest work #autolinux #ossummit Japan 2019 pic.twitter.com/JZhzeybVYb
— Lorenzo Tilve (@ltilve) July 17, 2019
We showed some demos for Chromium and Web Application Manager on AGL on several reference boards such as Renesas m3 board, Intel Minnowboard, and RPi3. I was very pleased to meet many people and share our works with them.
I gave a talk about “HTML5 apps on AGL platform with the Web Application Manager“.
Julie Kim is showing the #igalia work on the Chromium based Web Application Manager for @autogradelinux at Tokyo #AutoLinux 2019 https://t.co/BmqH4vbscN pic.twitter.com/G1mnmR0Ztg
— Lorenzo Tilve (@ltilve) July 17, 2019
As you might know, Igalia has worked on Chromium Wayland port for several years. We tried various approaches and finally fully upstreamed our changes to upstream last year. Chromium on AGL has been implemented based on it with supporting ivi-extension.
LG opensourced Web Application Manager used for their products and Igalia implemented Web Runtime solution for AGL on the top of it. My colleague, Jacobo, uploaded a post about ‘Introducing the Chromium-based web runtime for the AGL platform‘. You can find more information there.
I also participated in the AGL Developer Panel in ALS.
.@vstarwalt kicks off the AGL developer panel at #AutoLinux Summit with @Collabora @igalia @KonsulkoGroup and DENSO TEN pic.twitter.com/PHZlG8H0Vb
— Automotive Grade Linux (@autogradelinux) July 18, 2019
We generally talked about the current status and the plans for the next step. Thanks to Walt Minor, Automotive Grade Linux Development Manager at The Linux Foundation, everything went well and I believe all of us enjoyed the time.
I think AGL is one of open source projects growing fast and it shows continuous improving. When I looked around demo booths, I could see many companies tried various interesting ideas on the top of the AGL.
Last, I’d like to say “Thanks a lot, people who organized this event, came by our Igalia booth, and listened to my talk”.
