We have discussed this proposal in the @platform-steering-group, and we are generally very supportive of the idea to form an Android Working Group. The next step is to create a draft of an official charter for this working group.
The PSG would like to request (from the authors of this proposal) a draft for this charter that we will review, and then submit to the @core-team for approval. This should be roughly in the same format as other working group charters are, see for example https://www.swift.org/cxx-interop-workgroup/. This should include some of the points that are mentioned in the original post of this forum thread (goals, areas of interest), the membership rules and communication structure.
We would also like to request that the charter includes two explicit goals:
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Working with the PSG to officially define platform support levels generally, and then working towards achieving official support of a particular level for Android, and
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Ensuring continued support by setting up and maintaining CI systems to have good automated testing coverage of the Android platform support.
On (1) specifically, the PSG needs to provide the official platform support rules and definitions, and it has been working towards that already. We feel strongly that we should not block the creation of the Android WG until this work in done, and instead we should collaborate between these groups.
-- PSG