Platforms enabling efficient software development shouldn’t be differentiating, the product itself should be differentiating.
Horizon provides an open-source, robust, scalable, cloud-hosted and developer friendly toolchain for the development of complex embedded software. It provides solutions for code, build, test and release.
By shifting the focus from hardware-led to software-centric development, it aims to drive faster innovation, reduce costs, and improve the quality of software development in the automotive industry.
The Horizon program is an initiative launched by Google and Accenture, poised to revolutionize the embedded software development landscape.
It addresses challenges in the Software-Defined Vehicle (SDV) market such as complex and inconsistent toolchains leading to inefficiencies, high scaling costs that constrain software development and a hardware-centric focus that hinders rapid development and innovation.
The Horizon initiative consists of two streams:
- Stream 1 is the current focus and covers Android Platform development (AAOS IVI, AOSP).
- Stream 2 will focus on expanding beyond Android towards the rest of SDV, enabling cloud-based virtual development of complex system-of-systems.
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This is not an officially supported Google product. This project is not eligible for the Google Open Source Software Vulnerability Rewards Program.