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+# Android Bazel Roadmap
+
+This document describes the major release milestones for the Android Bazel
+Rules. There are three major pillars that we are focused on when developing the
+Android rules - **Performance**, **Features**, and **Developer Experience** -
+and for each milestone we list the main items for each pillar. Progress on each
+item is tracked via an issue.
+
+If you have feedback on this roadmap (including feature and reprioritization
+requests) please open an issue or comment on the existing one.
+
+## Rules Alpha (est. mid 2019)
+
+The primary goal of the Rules Alpha release is to start collecting feedback from
+projects and developers that are interested in being early adopters of the
+rules. Our intention is for Rules Alpha to be a 1:1 identical drop-in
+replacement for the native Android rules, although undoubtedly there will be
+missing features and we cannot always guarantee 100% backwards compatibility.
+
+### Performance
+
+*   Use AAPT2 for resource processing
+*   Use D8 for Dexing
+
+### Features
+
+*   Support android_instrumentation_test on macOS
+*   Support building and testing on Google Cloud Platform Remote Build Execution
+*   Support new Android App Bundle format
+*   Accept APKs directly into android_instrumentation_test
+*   Simplified package and dependency management
+*   Improve Kotlin interoperability
+*   Integration with Bazel's platforms and toolchains support
+*   Modern and correct NDK support
+
+### Developer Experience
+
+*   Documentation for Android with Bazel compatibility across Windows, macOS,
+    Linux
+*   Documentation for Android with Bazel compatibility across Android Studio
+    versions
+*   Stable and reliable CI
+*   NDK documentation and samples
+
+## Rules Beta (est. late 2019)
+
+The goal for the Rules Beta release is to provide a stable, (mostly) feature
+complete version of the rules for all developers and projects. We intend the
+Rules Beta release to be the first version of the rules to be broadly adopted,
+and will comply with Bazel's backwards compatibility guarantees.
+
+### Performance
+
+*   Improve resource processing speed and incrementality
+*   Decouple Java compilation from R.class generation
+*   Launch Bazel mobile-install v2
+
+### Features
+
+*   New android_application rule for app packaging / sourceless binary /
+    android_application
+*   Improved support for AAR creation
+*   Support Databinding 3.4.0 (v2)
+*   Support `bazel coverage` for all test rules
+*   Integration with Android Lint
+
+### Developer Experience
+
+*   Document best practices
+*   Best in class tutorials and migration guides