diff --git a/thermal/aidl/default/Android.bp b/thermal/aidl/default/Android.bp
index 49a578b..451e1e2 100644
--- a/thermal/aidl/default/Android.bp
+++ b/thermal/aidl/default/Android.bp
@@ -24,26 +24,50 @@
 cc_binary {
     name: "android.hardware.thermal-service.example",
     relative_install_path: "hw",
-    init_rc: [":android.hardware.thermal.example.rc"],
-    vintf_fragments: [":android.hardware.thermal.example.xml"],
     vendor: true,
-    shared_libs: [
-        "libbase",
-        "libbinder_ndk",
+    stl: "c++_static",
+    static_libs: [
         "android.hardware.thermal-V1-ndk",
+        "libbase",
+    ],
+    shared_libs: [
+        "libbinder_ndk",
+        "liblog",
     ],
     srcs: [
         "main.cpp",
         "Thermal.cpp",
     ],
+    installable: false,
 }
 
-filegroup {
+prebuilt_etc {
     name: "android.hardware.thermal.example.xml",
-    srcs: ["thermal-example.xml"],
+    src: "thermal-example.xml",
+    sub_dir: "vintf",
+    installable: false,
 }
 
-filegroup {
+prebuilt_etc {
     name: "android.hardware.thermal.example.rc",
-    srcs: ["thermal-example.rc"],
+    src: "thermal-example.rc",
+    installable: false,
+}
+
+apex {
+    name: "com.android.hardware.thermal",
+    manifest: "apex_manifest.json",
+    file_contexts: "apex_file_contexts",
+    key: "com.android.hardware.key",
+    certificate: ":com.android.hardware.certificate",
+    updatable: false,
+    vendor: true,
+
+    binaries: [
+        "android.hardware.thermal-service.example",
+    ],
+    prebuilts: [
+        "android.hardware.thermal.example.xml",
+        "android.hardware.thermal.example.rc",
+    ],
 }
diff --git a/thermal/aidl/default/apex_file_contexts b/thermal/aidl/default/apex_file_contexts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..9fa5339
--- /dev/null
+++ b/thermal/aidl/default/apex_file_contexts
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+(/.*)?                                                          u:object_r:vendor_file:s0
+/etc(/.*)?                                                      u:object_r:vendor_configs_file:s0
+/bin/hw/android\.hardware\.thermal-service\.example             u:object_r:hal_thermal_default_exec:s0
diff --git a/thermal/aidl/default/apex_manifest.json b/thermal/aidl/default/apex_manifest.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..80420d5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/thermal/aidl/default/apex_manifest.json
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+{
+    "name": "com.android.hardware.thermal",
+    "version": 1
+}
diff --git a/thermal/aidl/default/thermal-example.rc b/thermal/aidl/default/thermal-example.rc
index 591ca03..36dde0d 100644
--- a/thermal/aidl/default/thermal-example.rc
+++ b/thermal/aidl/default/thermal-example.rc
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-service vendor.thermal-example /vendor/bin/hw/android.hardware.thermal-service.example
+service vendor.thermal-example /apex/com.android.hardware.thermal/bin/hw/android.hardware.thermal-service.example
     class hal
     user nobody
     group system