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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 couldnt 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 Androids history leading to the launch of 10 This engaging and accessible book captures the developers stories in their own voices to answer the question How did Android succeed