Androids, Chet Haase
Androids, Chet Haase
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Androids
The Team that Built the Android Operating System

Author: Chet Haase

Narrator: Chet Haase

Unabridged: 10 hr 26 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 07/26/2022


Synopsis

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?

About 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). Chet's books include two programming books, two humor books, and one slim volume of poetry about donuts.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Wayne on August 25, 2015

The team is at it again. This time they are up against a ruthless Chinese warlord out to make nuclear weapons. It all takes place in, you guessed it, The Amazon. Pretty decent book. It does get a bit to technical. "Gun porn" as I've heard it called. It bogs down here and there, but ends well. Not th......more

Goodreads review by Jc on June 09, 2018

I have decided that I wanted to go back in time and read all these Able Team books I could find. I first read them when I was in junior high and high school.......more

Goodreads review by Josh Hitch on October 09, 2023

A really good chapter in the series that kept my interest throughout. This time the team is in the Amazon between Brazil and Bolivia. A madman has raised a mercenary army and paid off a few members of the Brazilian army. He did this to build nuclear reactors to make Plutonium for bombs. He uses the......more

Goodreads review by Andrew on September 16, 2021

One of the more violent and graphic instalments, but it’s Able Team dammit. Action escapism.......more

Goodreads review by Little on January 25, 2016

A spin off series from his Executioner books. This series follows several secondary characters that band together. Recommended......more