About the Author

Chris Simmonds is a software consultant and trainer who lives in southern England. He has been using Linux in embedded systems since the late 1990s, during which he has worked on many interesting projects, including a stereoscopic camera, intelligent weighing scales, various set-top boxes and home routers, and even a large walking robot.

He is a frequent presenter at open source and embedded conferences, including the Embedded Linux Conference, Embedded World, and the Android Builders' Summit. He has been conducting training courses and workshops in embedded Linux since 2002 and in embedded Android since 2010. He has delivered hundreds of sessions to many well-known companies. You can see some of his work on the "Inner Penguin" blog at www.2net.co.uk.

I would like to thank my editor, Samantha Gonsalves, for her tireless work in reviewing my work and keeping me on track. I would also like to thank the people who took time to review my early drafts and to see through my obfuscations to the core of what I was trying to say. So, I would like to thank Behan Webster, Klaas van Gend, Tim Bird, Robert Berger, Mathieu Deschamps, and Mark Furman. Last but not least, I would like to thank my wife, Shirley Simmonds, for her support and for understanding the fact that I really could not help her redecorate the house because I had a book to write.