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Androids
The Team That Built the Android Operating System
by Chet Haase · first published 2021
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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.
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I have not had time to read a lot of books, one (475 page) book I read is "Androids" by Chet Haase. Haase was on the Android team and interviewed most of the programmers who wrote the initial Android versions. I program Android and find it fascinating. It gives you an idea of how…
on “Ask HN: What's the best book you read in 2021?” ↗There's a new book, "Androids: The Team That Built the Android Operating System" by Chet Haase, which may be helpful.
on “Ask HN: Help me find the origin story of Android” ↗I can recommend the book “Androids” for an in-depth look at the origins of Android and the team that built it: https://www.amazon.com/Androids-Built-Android-Operating-Syst... The definition of a phone OS was very different in 2005 when…
on “Ask HN: Why is Android not just another GNU/Linux distro?” ↗Androids: The Team that Built the Android Operating System (Chet Haase) Also enjoying Dealers of Lightning about Xerox Parc
on “Hacking the Samsung NX300 'Smart' Camera” ↗I bought Androids by Chet Haase when it was released a year ago and just finished reading it last week. It is about the creation of the Android operating system, from its inception until around the time of the release…
on “Ask HN: Which books you have read till now that were worth investing time in?” ↗The book Androids by Chet Haase talks about how the early Android team had a lot of ex-Palm people on it.
on “I convinced HP's board to buy Palm and watched them kill it” ↗In "Androids: The Team That Built the Android Operating System" by Chet Haase (a book you shouldn't waste time on), it is very clear that making Android open source (i.e. AOSP) was almost by accident. Google was pretty…
on “I'm switching my phone from Android to Linux” ↗According to footnote 121 in Chet Haase's book 'Androids' Bob had used this nickname since highschool and even used it as his corporate email address. Does not answer where it originally came from, but he seems to have enjoyed the nickname.
on “Bob 'crazybob' Lee Was Killed” ↗