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pjmlp on Dec 18, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: How Unix made it to the top

Have you ever used the NDK?

Android is all about Java and there is only a very thin subset of native APIs that are available, including POSIX ones.

https://developer.android.com/ndk/guides/stable_apis.html

Starting with Android 7, calling anything outside of that list will terminate the application.

Google could replace the kernel for something else, while keeping those NDK APIs and only OEMs writing drivers would notice.

dispose13432 on Dec 18, 2016 [–]

>Starting with Android 7, calling anything outside of that list will terminate the application. Google could replace the kernel for something else, while keeping those NDK APIs and only OEMs writing drivers would notice

And they're planning on doing precisely that with Fuchsia

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