From: eLinux.org

Android People

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

• 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

Hacker community

• 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
  • announcement of 1.5 (cupcake) build
• Others on xda-developers: xmoo, Stericson, dapro, marcusmaximus, manup456

Category:

• Android