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[–] spacemanspiffy@lemmy.world 2 points 13 hours ago (3 children)

Because Android is not Linux.

[–] mkwt@lemmy.world 2 points 10 hours ago

Really, we need to break out something like that "GNU+Linux" copypasta.

Android is more like Android/Linux than GNU/Linux.

[–] verdantbanana@lemmy.world 1 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

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

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).

https://source.android.com/docs/core/architecture/kernel

[–] BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 1 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] mkwt@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

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.