Actinis Custom AOSP Development
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Full-stack AOSP, written and shipped.

We build the parts of your Android device that Google does not — board bring-up, HALs, kiosk builds, OTA pipelines, and CTS/VTS remediation. The same depth of work we do on our own products, delivered inside yours.

What we do
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Board bring-up and BSP work: kernel configuration, bootloader integration, device trees, and hardware enablement — taking a board from first boot through the compliance work that follows.

HAL authoring — AIDL and HIDL interfaces, sensor frameworks, cameras, and audio stacks — working from your vendor’s reference code under NDA.

Kiosk and single-purpose builds: device-owner ROMs with custom launchers, managed OTA, and device-policy enforcement, scoped to what the deployment actually needs.

A/B OTA pipelines with signing, staging, and rollback telemetry — built once with your security team, operated by you for years.

CTS and VTS remediation: reading the failure logs, isolating the cause, and writing the fixes your vendor sign-off process needs.

Long-term platform patching: backported security fixes, kernel merges, and Android version maintenance for devices outside the Google release cadence.

Who it's for

Honest scoping, up front

Good fit when
  • You are shipping a device on AOSP and need senior platform engineers alongside your team.
  • You are stuck on CTS or VTS and need engineers who read the failure suites source-side, not just the HTML report.
  • You need an OTA pipeline with real rollback, signed staging, and evidence an auditor will accept.
  • You want kiosk, device-owner, or single-purpose behaviour that your vendor BSP does not support cleanly.
Not a fit when
  • You only need an app on an Android device — see Mobile App Development.
  • You do not have hardware or an SoC selected yet. We deliver platform engineering, not hardware sourcing.
  • You are looking for a whitelabel phone SKU with no engineering work — that is a contract manufacturer, not us.
How we engage

Clear scope,
documented handoffs

01

Technical intake

We read your BSP, your vendor contracts (under NDA), and your device specification. We surface the two or three highest-risk items and size them explicitly.

02

Milestones with acceptance criteria

Written milestones, fixed price per milestone or hourly with a ceiling. You see the number before we start, and each milestone has a demo or artefact you can verify.

03

Inside your repo

We work in your Git, your Gerrit, your CI. Branch policy, review conventions, and commit style match your team — no parallel fork, no vendor-drop surprises.

04

Handoff and standby

Every engagement ends with a written handoff document. An optional 60-day standby SLA covers production escalations after ship.

Where it lands

Where this work lands

01

Industrial tablet

A full AOSP build on an ARM SoC: kernel backport, custom camera HAL, device-owner kiosk behaviour, and an A/B OTA pipeline you can operate without us.

02

Automotive display

AIDL HAL for a vendor peripheral and the SELinux policy needed to pass CTS. Scope sized in weeks, with a demo at each milestone.

03

Locked-down device

Device-owner build on a purpose-built tablet: managed OTA, custom launcher, and an offline-first update pipeline for restricted networks.

Contact

Let's scope your project

Tell us what you're building and where you're stuck. We read every message, and we reply with an honest assessment — even when we think someone else is a better fit.