Androids
The Team That Built the Android Operating System
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Androids
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Narrated by:
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Chet Haase
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Written by:
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Chet Haase
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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 firsthand 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?
©2021 Chet Haase (P)2022 TantorThe reason for my above poetic paraphrasing is for the two reason:
Firstly, it is an audaciously bold task from an author’s POV to even just conceptualise a book about such a story. How can one fathom about telling a story of building one software without bugging readers into too much of technical side. Yet, giving the readers enough and at the right time that even with no technical background author was successful to keep readers hooked on with clarity.
Secondly, the story is so much relevant to be told across because of the timings. The project was more than a halfway and personality like Steve Job with his marketing genius and with his product like iphone were unable to shake the confidence & the belief of the android team on there vision.
(Though, in later chapter we see android team members quoting there modest reply of the project success to right time at right place).
This book should be recommended for the freshers in IT colleges or to others stream also because of the sheer scale of the story, project overview from vision to execution, professional people crossing path within industry, choice & relevance of personal interest vrs outlook towards project, understanding the big picture, importance and persistence of details, global partnerships, etc. there many learnings to grab from this journey-in making of Android.
This is a compelling work and i believe the author completely understood the gravity of how easily it could have slipped towards boring side… i guess thats why he gave his own voice.
The way footnotes was captured during narration. Extra applause for that.
Rome wasn’t built in a day & so was Android
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Footnote: please be patient with all the ‘footnotes’ in the beginning, you’ll come to enjoy them in the later chapters of the books and sometimes even anticipate them.
What a journey! Chet Haase’s narration adds another charm to the recording.
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