Building the Android Open Source Project (AOSP), at scale, is one of software engineering’s most resource-intensive compute tasks. With the release of AOSP 16, the codebase grew to over 140 million lines of code (LOC), and real-world device codebases are even larger. Automotive Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs), smartphone manufacturers, and IoT companies that depend on AOSP face a compounding problem: as codebases grow, build times lengthen, compute costs escalate, and developer productivity erodes.
In this post, we explore how SourceFS from Source.dev, running on AWS, transforms the AOSP build experience – reducing end-to-end checkout-and-build time from 3 hours to under 5 minutes. We highlight how leading automotive OEMs are achieving material gains in build velocity, cost efficiency and developer productivity by using SourceFS.
The challenge of building AOSP at scale
AOSP 16 is massive. A standard checkout downloads over 200 GB of source…
