From: eLinux.org
Here are some of the key Android developers you may encounter on mailing lists or at events:
See Google's listing of the Android core technical team
- Dianne Hackborn - platform programmer, worked on original OpenBinder
- Brian Swetland - lead kernel developer
- 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
- Karim Yaghmour - President of Opersys, long-time Embedded Linux and Android expert, author and trainer
- 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
- Tetsuyuki Kobayashi - Developer at Kyoto MicroComputer. Has an
excellent blog with several great articles about Android.
http://kobablog.wordpress.com/
- presentation: Android is not just Java on
Linux
- an excellent overview of Android
- page of presentations by Kobayashi-san: http://www.slideshare.net/tetsu.koba/presentations
- presentation: Android is not just Java on
Linux
- Steve Kondik (also known as Cyanogen) - creator and maintainer of the cyanogenmod custom images
- 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 - Used to make custom system images. Author of
smali/baksmali (dex assembler/disassembler)
- JesusFreke's Blog (with release anouncements)
- smali project page
- 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
- Others on xda-developers: xmoo, Stericson, dapro, marcusmaximus, manup456