XDA Developers

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XDA

Available in	English
Owner	Valnet Inc., Canada Peter Poelman (founder)
URL	www.xda-developers.com
Commercial	Yes
Registration	Free, required to participate
Launched	2002; 22 years ago (2002)

XDA (formerly known as XDA Developers) is a mobile software development community launched on 20 December 2002.^[1][2] Although discussion primarily revolves around Android, members also talk about many other operating systems and mobile development topics.

Many software and hardware hacks, rooting methods, custom ROMs and other phone and tablet specific tweaks originate from the members of the XDA Forum.

XDA also hosts the XDA Portal — a source for tech news, product reviews, guides, and features which launched in 2010^[3]

Montreal based Valnet Inc. acquired XDA along with four other websites, Pocketnow, AppAdvice, BackyardBoss and Hook&Bullet from Busy Pixel Media in February 2022.^{[citation needed]}

XDA with 11 million members, is listed as the largest Mobile Development forum based website by Feedspot in 2023 and among the top 70 technology forums to follow.^[4]