True, but it's always fun to speculate. Things to remember;
1) A *lot* of the code comes from 3rd parties. Look at the number of platform/external objects in Gitweb to get an idea of how much isn't written by them. 2) The development time has already been years. Google acquired Android Inc. in July 2005 and at that time they were already working on software for mobiles. That would give them 2 years at Google on top of what they had done before. 3) I've seen teams of decent coders write a lot of code in a year, and given Googles recruitment process I doubt they're hiring too many novice coders. Mikes right, without looking in to the box you can't tell the exact correct answer, but from previous experiences you can get an idea of what's in the box from the noises it makes and the things that come out of it. Al. --- * Written an Android App? - List it at http://andappstore.com/ * ====== Funky Android Limited is registered in England & Wales with the company number 6741909. The registered head office is Kemp House, 152-160 City Road, London, EC1V 2NX, UK. The views expressed in this email are those of the author and not necessarily those of Funky Android Limited, it's associates, or it's subsidiaries. From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of mike quinn Sent: 18 May 2009 16:31 To: [email protected] Subject: [android-discuss] Re: How many Google engineers working on Android? Whoa, Schrodingers Cat springs to mind http://www.thefreedictionary.com/Schrodinger+Erwin Al is both right and wrong as are you Mike. Without the ability to look into the Google box all states are correct, so any further disussion is pointless. On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 4:25 PM, Mike Hearn <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: You're assuming that every developer working on Android posts to these forums. That's a bad assumption. As to the size of the Android team, the codebase is many millions of lines long. Do you really think a team of 5-10 people could produce such a giant codebase? That's way off base. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
