Apparently the majority that express this feeling never coded with the Android NDK.
What is exposed from Linux there, means Google can easily replace it by something else and most app developers will never notice.
This is what is "Linux" for C and C++ code:
https://developer.android.com/ndk/guides/stable_apis.html
They just need to provide this libraries, and if you try to link to some private library, like many used to do, starting with Android 7, the app will get terminated.
https://developer.android.com/about/versions/nougat/android-...
Mobile is all about Cocoa Touch, Android Frameworks, .NET/UWP and Web Browsers, the kernels are pretty much irrelevant.
Apparently the majority that express this feeling never coded with the Android NDK.
What is exposed from Linux there, means Google can easily replace it by something else and most app developers will never notice.
This is what is "Linux" for C and C++ code:
https://developer.android.com/ndk/guides/stable_apis.html
They just need to provide this libraries, and if you try to link to some private library, like many used to do, starting with Android 7, the app will get terminated.
https://developer.android.com/about/versions/nougat/android-...
Mobile is all about Cocoa Touch, Android Frameworks, .NET/UWP and Web Browsers, the kernels are pretty much irrelevant.