Androids: The Team That Built the Android Operating System
- Length: 412 pages
- Edition: 1
- Language: English
- Publisher: Chet Haase
- Publication Date: 2021-08-12
- ISBN-10: 1737354829
- ISBN-13: 9781737354826
- Sales Rank: #23053 (See Top 100 Books)
In 2004, Android was two people who wanted to build camera software. But they couldn’t get investors interested. Today, Android is a large team at Google, shipping an operating system (including camera software) to over three billion devices worldwide.
This is the inside story, told by the people who made it happen.
“What are the essential ingredients that lead a small team to build software at the sheer scale and impact of Android? We may never fully know, but this first person account is probably the closest set of clues we have.”
–Dave Burke, VP of Android Engineering
“Androids captures a strong picture of what the early development of Android, as well as the Android team, was like.”
–Dianne Hackborn, Android Framework Engineer
“Androids is the engaging tale of a motley group of coders with a passion to make insanely great products who banged out the operating system when that idea seemed nuts.
True to his geek genes, Chet Haase tells this remarkable tale of technical and business success from the trenches, an inspiring, massive collective effort of dozens of programmers who flipped their seemingly late timing to their advantage, and presaged a generation of platform builders. Read Androids to discover what it takes to create a hot tech team that shipped a product running today on more than 3 billion devices.”
–Jonathan Littman, co-author of The Entrepreneurs Faces: How Makers, Visionaries and Outsiders Succeed, and author of The Fugitive Game
All profits from the book will be donated to charity.
Cast Introduction PART ONE Android the... Camera OS? The Farm Team Growing the Team The Pitch The Acquisition Life at Google PART TWO The Systems Team Java Core Libraries Infrastructure Graphics Media Framework UI Toolkit System UI & Launcher Design The Android Browser London Calling Applications Android Services Location, Location, Location Android Market Communications Developer Tools Lean Code Open Source Managing All the Things Deals Product vs. Platform PART THREE Android != Google The Wild West Fun with Hardware Fun with Robots Work Harder,Not Smarter Bacon Sundays Postcards from Barcelona PART FOUR Competition Meanwhile, in Cupertino... The SDK Launch The Run Up to 1.0 1.0 Launch G1 Reception Just Desserts The Early Devices Droid Did Samsung and More The Hockey Stick PART FIVE The Team Decisions, Decisions Timing Success!We’re Still Here! ACKs APPENDICES Jargon Related Content Index
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