Use this space to document use cases during the Oct 2021 workshop.


  • Pick a time frame – Model Year 27. (i.e., 5 year time frame)
  • Ready for teams to start product development in spring or summer of 2024.
  • What the use cases we are enabling?
  • What does AGL provide?
  • What does OEM and Tier One need to integrate?


  • Can we use flatpak to deploy Flutter apps?
  • Gap between Toyota Flutter implementation and Base system that has been released to AGL in Application management areas. May be released by Toyota in the future.
  • App developers don’t want to know anything about Yocto. They want to be able to write and deploy their apps.
  • Open Source (Supply chain?) Cyber security built in
  • Yocto LTS and AGL LTS – Yamaguchi-san: We should think about using Debian rather than Yocto for security updates over a very long term.
  • ISO 21434: Cyber Security in automotive will be required
  • IC will not use Flutter – do we need to maintain a non-Flutter version
  • What is most important to the ecosystem, AGL components or the a complete distribution with demo/ reference apps?
    • Tier Ones have their own internal Linux system. How does AGL convince a Tier One to an AGL component or to the AGL distribution as a whole?
  • APIs


Use Cases:

1) As a developer I want to write an app and simply deploy it to AGL using QEMU. 

  1. Develop app on my local desktop, test using cloud based CI/CD, then deploy to real hardware for testing seamlessly. 

2) As an OEM I want interaction between the IC and IVI displays running both displays from a single SOC. 

3) As an OEM or Tier 1 I want an open choice of app development toolkits such as Qt, Flutter, React, etc. 

4) As a driver I would like to be able to update the IVI system for the lifetime of the car (at least 5 years) without out any significant downgrade of performance. This includes=

  • Security patches
  • New features using existing hardware
  • OTA update so I do not have to return to the shop for everything. 


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4 Comments

  1. Hiroyuki Ishii

    Walt Miner , Do you want to list up ivi-specific use cases here, or much automotive-computing-wide ones?

    1. Walt Miner

      Automotive computing wide use cases are welcome as well as IVI specific. 

  2. Hiroyuki Ishii

    I think these are much current use cases rather than future ones, but what I want for AGL as a Tier-1 developer:

    - Marketplace/settlement framework, purchase/install demo application via mock server.
    - Product-mode demo: Enable all security and performance options. Hopefully secured at product level.
    - Integrated solutions for logging, automated bug reporting, performance analysis etc.

    1. Walt Miner

      Based on Workshop conversation.

      1) Automated bug reporting should enable a plug-in solution so OEMs and Tier 1 can turn it on or off in product/demo mode as well customize the automated bug reporting mechanism.  AGL can provide a reference implementation that possible creates bugs with log files in Jira. 

      2) WE have been working towards a market place for for downloading apps for quite some time. Possibly adding flatpak to the AGL UCB moves us closer to that being completed?