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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.