Usage of the term "flinger" ?

[Bjarke Freund-Hansen]

Out of curiosity, in Android there is the Surface Flinger and the Audio Flinger. But what does "flinger" actually mean?

Thanks

/Bjarke

[Ashwin Bihari]

By the definition in the dictionary[1], a flinger is someone that
flings. In the case of the SurfaceFlinger, it's flinging visual data
to the surface and AudioFlinger is flinging audio data to the
appropriate recipient. They're just "cute" words..:)

[1] - http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/flinger

-- Ashwin

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