Hugo Barra’s farewell letter to Google confirms Xiaomi move

Hugo Barra, the former vice president of product management at Android, has penned his farewell letter to his colleagues at Google. The letter also confirms that Barra would be joining Chinese smartphone vendor Xiaomi as the vice president for Xiaomi Global where he will help the company expand its business globally. This wasconfirmed moments ago by Xiaomi’s co-founder Bin Lin. His farewell letter follows.
A new Android chapter

After nearly 5½ years at Google and almost 3 years as a member of the Android team — the most amazing group of people I’ve ever worked with in my life — I have decided to start a new career chapter.

In a few weeks, I’ll be joining the Xiaomi team in China to help them expand their incredible product portfolio and business globally — as Vice President, Xiaomi Global.  I’m really looking forward to this new challenge, and am particularly excited about the opportunity to continue to help drive the Android ecosystem.

It has been an amazing ride and true honor to be part of the Android team at Google, and I especially want to thank +Andy Rubin , +Hiroshi Lockheimer , +Sundar Pichai and +Vic Gundotra for their phenomenal support and mentorship over the years.

+Android team, I will truly miss you all!