| # libbrillo: platform utility library | |
| libbrillo is a shared library meant to hold common utility code that we deem | |
| useful for platform projects. | |
| It supplements the functionality provided by libbase/libchrome since that | |
| project, by design, only holds functionality that Chromium (the browser) needs. | |
| As a result, this tends to be more OS-centric code. | |
| ## AOSP Usage | |
| This project is also used by [Update Engine] which is maintained in AOSP. | |
| However, AOSP doesn't use this codebase directly, it maintains its own | |
| [libbrillo fork](https://android.googlesource.com/platform/external/libbrillo/). | |
| To help keep the projects in sync, we have a gsubtree set up on our GoB: | |
| https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromiumos/platform2/libbrillo/ | |
| This allows AOSP to cherry pick or merge changes directly back into their fork. | |
| [Update Engine]: https://android.googlesource.com/platform/system/update_engine/ |