Androids
The Team that Built the Android Operating System
$43.97
- Paperback
416 pages
- Release Date
20 September 2022
Summary
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 chronologi…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781718502680 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1718502680 |
| Author: | Chet Haase |
| Publisher: | No Starch Press,US |
| Imprint: | No Starch Press,US |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 416 |
| Release Date: | 20 September 2022 |
| Weight: | 654g |
| Dimensions: | 230mm x 152mm |
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Critics Review
”[W]ell-written [with] humorous and clever narration … highly recommended … a must-read book for every developer” –Joseph Henry, Tech Times
“Well-written [with] humorous and clever narration … highly recommended … a must-read book for every developer.”
—Joseph Henry, Tech Times
“A great book for anyone that is currently a software engineer or is thinking of becoming one… For the candid insights it gives into the development of a real piece of significant software, this book would be an excellent supplementary text for a university software engineering or operating systems course.”
—Gary W. Meyer, retired Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of Minnesota
“I highly recommend reading it in order to understand [the] ecosystem of the mobile technology before iPhone and later Android appeared.”
—@Farenain
“A great read on operating systems, teams and life inside Google.”
—Tom Karlo, @tkarlo, Product Manager at Meta Reality Labs
About The Author
Chet Haase
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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