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Androids
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Androids

by Chet Haase
July 2022
Beginner to intermediate
416 pages
10h 17m
English
No Starch Press
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26 Open Source

I don’t think the open source thing mattered.

—Iliyan Malchev1

Open source is many things to many people.

It can be a way to “crowdsource” work, getting a larger community to help out. Linux is a great example of this. While the original system was written by a single developer, Linus Torvalds, a large community of individuals and companies in the decades since has contributed everything from fixes to drivers to core system functionality.

Open source can be a way to advertise and share work. GitHub is a great place to do this and hosts many active (and cobwebbed) projects that show off the work of people who took enough time and care to finish and upload the code instead of just letting it fester on their local system. Open ...

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ISBN: 9781098130237