Difference between revisions of "Android People"

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Here are some of the key Android developers you may encounter on mailing lists or at events:

Google People

See Google's listing of the Android core technical team

• Dianne Hackborn - platform programmer, worked on original OpenBinder
• Brian Swetland - lead kernel developer
  • See http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/6/10/397
• Arve Hjønnevåg - kernel developer (original submitter of wakelock patches)
• Mike Chan - Droid developer
• Dan Bornstein - Dalvik creator
• Chris DiBona - Open Source Programs Manager at Google

Non-google People

• Greg Kroah-Hartman - long-time kernel developer, sometimes responds on android-kernel mailing list
• Tim Riker linked-in account - CTO at Saygus, maker of an Android-based video phone

Hacker community

• Steve Kondik (also known as Cyanogen) - creator and maintainer of the cyanogenmod
• Benno - has a blog, provides busybox binary (V.P. of Engineering at Open Kernel Labs)
  • Android Framework Startup tutorial on framework startup (and how to change a ramdisk.img)
  • Android - under the hood analysis of system startup
  • list of android articles by Benno
  • busybox binary
• JesusFreke - makes custom system images
  • JesusFreke's Blog (with release anouncements)
• Haykuro - makes custom system images
  • Haykuro's site (blog, info)
• Brian Gupta (aka Brandorr) - author of FAQ at Android-DLs
• TheDudeOfLife - makes custom system images
  • announcement of 1.5 (cupcake) build
• Others on xda-developers: xmoo, Stericson, dapro, marcusmaximus, manup456
• Cyanogen