I'm running an Android Automotive 15 on a Raspberry Pi 4b, and trying to get an own app into the AAOS image of the Raspberry PI. The app is just to read some sensors and display current values. In my emulator environment it is up and running. To emulate Android Automotive OS I am using Android Studio 2024.1.2.12 and an default Android Automotive 13.0 and an Volvo XC40 with Android Automotive 11.0 as virtual vehicles.

The Android build environment was created with this repos .0.0_r14. The current problem is, that if I put the app into the same structures as the other pre-installed apps and use the individual commands to create the image, the app is not included in the image. Can someone give me a clue as to what I fot or what else needs to be done to get the app into the image?

Is it possible in general, to install an own app to AAOS?

I tried get the App into the image with the APK in the out/target/product/rpi4/system/priv-app directory in an folder named after the app, where the other app APKs are. I also tried it withe the app in the packages/services/car/tests directory where the source code of the other apps are. After the make command and building the image for the Raspberry Pi 4b, my own app is not in the system image or in the complet image.