Xref Aosp |best| May 2026

Here’s a draft for a blog post about using xref to navigate the Android Open Source Project (AOSP) codebase. You can tweak the tone, add screenshots, or expand sections as needed.

In this post, I’ll show you how to set up and use xref on AOSP to find definitions, callers, and class hierarchies in seconds. xref aosp

: Use the sidebar to narrow results by specific projects or file paths. Here’s a draft for a blog post about

1. The official AOSP cross-reference tool hosted at cs.android.com (formerly android.googlesource.com + OpenGrok, now replaced by a Kythe-based system).
2. Any tool that provides a hyperlinked, indexed view of the AOSP source tree, allowing for rapid navigation between declarations and definitions.