... Starts 20 07OHA Announced 20 07Early Look SDK 20 08T-Mobile G1 Announced 20 08SDK 1.0 Released 20 08 Android Open Sourced 20 05 20 07 20 08Figure 1-3. Android timelineIn late 20 07, a group of industry ... coupled with Android s extensive class library makes Android a compelling platform to write programs for. Figure 1 -2 provides an overview of the Android software stack. (We’ll provide further ... Android Platform (see Figure 1-3). The key players at Android Inc. included Andy Rubin, Rich Miner, Nick Sears, and Chris White. 20 05Google Buys Android Inc. 20 05Work on Dalvik VM Starts 20 07OHA...