Android Community

Here is a page full of links to various Google and Android community resources.

Google sites

 * http://developer.android.com/ - site mainly for application developers
 * mailing lists for app developers
 * http://source.android.com/ - site devoted to source code management
 * mailing lists for source/platform discussions

People
Prominent developers:
 * Brian Swetland - One of the main Google kernel developers for Android.
 * See http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/6/10/397
 * 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)
 * Brandorr (Brian Gupta) - 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

Community sites

 * Android-DLs
 * Android-DLs wiki
 * Android-DLs forum
 * xda-developers
 * XDA Developers Dream Android Development forum - lots of good discussion about ROMS and Android system development
 * AndroidCommunity.com
 * Android Freeware Repo - community-driven freeware repo

Update sites

 * here is the thread on XDA-developers for upgrading a G1/ADP1 to a firmware image with the new "Hero" or Sense user interface, from HTC:
 * http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=534479

Manufacturers

 * HTC - G1/ADP1 (aka 'Dream')

News sites

 * http://www.talkandroid.com/ - app news?
 * http://androidguys.com/ - app and device news?
 * http://www.androidcentral.com/ - app news?

Uncategorized sites

 * http://www.helloandroid.com/
 * http://www.android-internals.org/index.php?title=Main_Page - Android-internals wiki (5 pages on May 14, 2009)
 * http://android.comyr.com/index.php/Main_Page - another Android wiki, not developer-oriented (9 pages on May 14, 2009)
 * Android Wiki - there are lots of pages (>100) for apps, a few on system information, but I didn't see much system developer information