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