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dingo_bat
on July 29, 2017
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Inside Andy Rubin's Quest to Create an OS for Ever...
AFAIK Android was already under development but arrival of iPhone caused it to be completely modified before release.
fn1
on July 29, 2017
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It was originally an OS for cameras. It's a pain to develop on. I believe they used an automated tool to convert a C-codebase to Java (judging from method name, usage of bit-fields instead of enums etc.)
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