Symbian had hundreds of developers working on Symbian OS. So did
Nokia, btw, but it's an altitude more than Symbian's stuff.

On May 17, 8:25 pm, Al Sutton <[email protected]> wrote:
> The only time I have experiences companies or groups trying to hide 
> information about their size is when the answer is so small it would make 
> them look unprofessional.
>
> From the amount of interaction on these lists, the git committers 
> information, etc. I'd take a guess that there are probably 5 to 10 developers 
> (maximum), 2 or 3 managers, and 4 or 5  advocates, making a total size of 
> around 15 to 25.
>
> This would put them roughly on par with the Symbian core OS team, but the 
> Symbian team don't do the per-manufacturer apps and customisations.
>
> Al.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] 
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Al
> Sent: 17 May 2009 17:21
> To: Android Discuss
> Subject: [android-discuss] Re: How many Google engineers working on Android?
>
> I doubt you'll get an answer. I asked someone from the dev team the
> same question in irc, he said they aren't allowed to say *shrug*
>
> On May 17, 5:31 am, Raphael <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Out of curiosity, why?
> > R/
>
> > On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 9:32 AM, nictam <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > > Dear all, everything is in the subject.. I was curious to get at least
> > > a rough estimate of how many eng are involved in Android (s/w
> > > architect, developpers, ...)!
>
> > > thanks, nictam
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