Who started Android? It was Andy Rubin. Who is he?
A.
Andy Rubin co-founded Android in 2003, and sold it to Google in 2005 (1). He was into Android before anybody was able to provide a common platform for all the mobile phones. So, the industry he was in - mobile computing!
In 1992 he worked at General Magic, the fabled Apple spinoff, where he led development of the Motorola Envoy, one of the earliest wireless PDAs. In December 1999 he launched Danger, creator of the Hiptop, a proto-smartphone (2)
From search in Wikipedia, Andy Rubin is in fact, Andrew E Rubin, born in 1963.
Andrew E. "Andy" Rubin (born 1963) is an American computer programmer, engineer, entrepreneur, and venture capitalist. He is the founder and CEO of tech startup incubator Playground Global and a partner at venture capital firm Redpoint Ventures.[1] He is the co-founder and former CEO of both Danger Inc. and Android Inc.
Having sold Android to Google, he remained in the running of the Android company for a while.
Rubin became the company's Senior Vice President of Mobile and Digital Content until March 2013,[3] where he oversaw development of Android, an open-source operating system for smartphones.[4][5][6] Rubin has seventeen patents for his inventions (3).
Now (as of this writing) he is with hardware startup venture capitalist. He is no more with Google (left in 2014) or Robotics - Boston Dynamics. He is now the CEO of and Founder of Playground Global and Partner at Redpoint Ventures.
And, in fact, Android Studio came about in 2013 and soon acquired by Google to emerge as the Developer Programme for Android. From Wikipedia:
Android Studio was in early access preview stage starting from version 0.1 in May 2013, then entered beta stage starting from version 0.8 which was released in June 2014.[5] The first stable build was released in December 2014, starting from version 1.0.[6] (4) Stable Version 2.0 was released in Nov 23rd, 2015.
Ref:
1. http://www.wired.com/2016/02/android-inventor-andy-rubin-playground-artificial-intelligence/
2. as above
3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Rubin
4. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_Studio
So, it is now that Android development is stable and just about the right time to master the software developer program - Android Studio, and scale the world of mobile computing!
Ref:
1. http://www.wired.com/2016/02/android-inventor-andy-rubin-playground-artificial-intelligence/
2. as above
3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Rubin
4. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_Studio
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