A Proposal for Translation Between Franca and Android Interface Definition Language

Great advancements in the automotive industry increased demands for variety of services. Android has become the operating system of choice for different infotainment applications. Nonetheless, infotainment domain is not explicitly based solely on Android. In various systems, such as Linux and QNX, inter-process communication (IPC) is done via Franca framework, unlike the Android system which implements the IPC mechanisms via Android Interface Definition Language (AIDL). From this reason, switching from one standard to another requires a large amount of effort. This paper proposes the generator whose purpose is to translate Franca Interface Definition Language (FIDL) and Android Interface Definition Language (AIDL) models between each other. By creating the proposed generator, we can speed up the process of migration from one standard to another in either automotive system or any other heterogenous system which contains Franca and Android.