Androids: The Team that Built the Android Operating System

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No Starch Press, 19. júl. 2022 - 416 síður
The fascinating inside story of how the Android operating system came to be.

In 2004, Android was two people who wanted to build camera software but couldn't get investors interested. Today, Android is a large team at Google, delivering an operating system (including camera software) to over 3 billion devices worldwide. This is the inside story, told by the people who made it happen.

Androids: The Team that Built the Android Operating System is a first-hand chronological account of how the startup began, how the team came together, and how they all built an operating system from the kernel level to its applications and everything in between. It describes the tenuous beginnings of this ambitious project as a tiny startup, then as a small acquisition by Google that took on an industry with strong, entrenched competition. Author Chet Haase joined the Android team at Google in May 2010 and later recorded conversations with team members to preserve the early days of Android's history leading to the launch of 1.0. This engaging and accessible book captures the developers' stories in their own voices to answer the question: How did Android succeed?
 

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In the Beginning
1
Android the Camera OS?
3
The Farm Team
7
Growing the Team
17
The Pitch
23
The Acquisition
33
Life at Google
35
Building the Platform
43
Managing All the Things
255
Deals
269
Product vs Platform
273
The Android Team
277
Android Google
281
The Wild West
283
Fun with Hardware
287
Fun with Robots
291

The Systems Team
45
Java
73
Core Libraries
85
Infrastructure
91
Graphics
99
Media
111
Framework
117
UI Toolkit
137
System UI and Launcher
151
Design
159
The Android Browser
169
London Calling
181
Applications
187
Android Services
195
Location Location Location
211
Android Market
221
Communications
225
Developer Tools
235
Lean Code
245
Open Source
247
Work Harder Not Smarter
293
Bacon Sundays
297
Postcards from Barcelona
299
Launches
301
Competition
303
Meanwhile in Cupertino
307
The SDK Launch
311
The Run Up to 1 0
319
Launch
325
G1 Reception
329
Just Desserts
331
The Early Devices
335
Droid Did
343
Samsung and More
349
The Hockey Stick
353
Why It Worked
357
Timing
365
Appendices
371
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Chet Haase has spent many years working in high tech companies across Silicon Valley, usually on graphics software. He joined the Android team at Google in 2010, where he has written animation and UI software, led the UI toolkit team, served as Android's Chief Advocate in developer relations, and is now an engineer in the graphics team. He writes books and articles, creates videos and gives presentations, either humorous or technical (often both). This is Chet's sixth book. His other books include two programming books, two humor books, and one slim volume of poetry about donuts.

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