The Android kernel is based on an upstream Linux Long Term Supported (LTS) kernel. At Google, LTS kernels are combined with Android-specific patches to form what are known as Android Common Kernels (ACKs).
What you’re calling the “Linux API” is not really the Linux API. It’s more like the “glibc API,” if I had to give it a name. Few desktop Linux applications use Linux system calls directly.
And yes, it’s true. The Android API is nothing like that.
Because Android is not Linux.
Really, we need to break out something like that “GNU+Linux” copypasta.
Android is more like Android/Linux than GNU/Linux.
yes, it is
same as Edge is Chrome albeit modified and using Trident which is just a forked/modified Blink which in turn is a fork from WebKit
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Browser_engine
https://source.android.com/docs/core/architecture/kernel
But the Android API isn’t Linux.
Android runs on a Linux kernel, not the same as Linux.
Wine isn’t Linux. Wine runs on a Linux kernel giving us a Windows API on Linux.
What you’re calling the “Linux API” is not really the Linux API. It’s more like the “glibc API,” if I had to give it a name. Few desktop Linux applications use Linux system calls directly.
And yes, it’s true. The Android API is nothing like that.
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