How many lines of code does it take to create the Android OS

by mun411 on 5/24/2010, 6:32 AM with 14 comments
  • by aaronbrethorst on 5/24/2010, 6:40 AM

    Wait, what? 3 million lines of XML. Oh yuck yuck yuck.

    Beyond that, I'm surprised there's more C than Java, and doubly surprised that C++ comes in behind all of the aforementioned languages.

  • by terminus on 5/24/2010, 8:20 AM

    This looks like cumulative lines of code for all the projects that go into Android (across all the platforms that they are supported on.)

    For instance C#, DOS Batch, IDL etc are listed. I don't believe that Android has a runtime for any of these.

  • by angusgr on 5/24/2010, 7:00 AM

    FWIW, I'd be really interested to see this reorganised as LOC per component.

  • by macrael on 5/24/2010, 6:48 AM

    A project made up of 12 million lines of code, and Google can give it away for free. Mind boggling. There's not many can do that.

  • by chrislloyd on 5/24/2010, 1:03 PM

    This really puts FONC in perspective.

  • by bprater on 5/24/2010, 7:51 AM

    PHP is making a disappointing showing with a whopping 3 LOC!

  • by Keyframe on 5/24/2010, 11:21 AM

    D?! Which D are we talking about here?

  • by losethos on 5/24/2010, 6:56 AM

    LoseThos is 120,000 LOC. Is that here nor there? I donno. Is more good? In school our grade was based on how short... on a curve.

    What do you think of the fact LoseThos is 120,000 including the compiler and demos. I don't know what Android does, so I can't really comment.

    Quoting a high value might be good for intimidation and to impress customers. I think most incentives are to quote high. I'm marketing LoseThos as simple and clean and unintimidating. Low's way better, all things being equal, right, if open source?