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Re:Google’s Fuchsia OS Confirmed to Have Android App Support... by glennpratt on Thursday January 03, 2019 @11:26AM (#18816278)
ChromeOS and Android are Linux. Android compatibility comes from a container.

https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromiumos/platform2/+/mas...

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Re:Google’s Fuchsia OS Confirmed to Have Android App Support... by pjmlp on Thursday January 03, 2019 @11:42AM (#18816442)
Having Linux kernel is pretty transparent for app developers.

They don't care which kernel powers Chrome processes, or ART.

On Android's case, Linux syscalls aren't even part of the official stable APIs.

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

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Re:Google’s Fuchsia OS Confirmed to Have Android App Support... by slrz on Thursday January 03, 2019 @10:41PM (#18821793)
OTOH, neither is the ARM ISA. Yet, once you try to bring a non-ARM Android device to the masses, you will soon discover the rule of Hyrum's Law.
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Re:Google’s Fuchsia OS Confirmed to Have Android App Support... by pjmlp on Friday January 04, 2019 @01:11AM (#18822304)
I have plenty of apps running on my non-ARM Android devices.

As for Hyrum's Law, since Android 7, any misbehaved app that tries to use non-sanctioned NDK APIs gets killed by the OS.

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Re:Google’s Fuchsia OS Confirmed to Have Android App Support... by Wowfunhappy on Thursday January 03, 2019 @11:58AM (#18816639)
But it does mean a Chrome OS device can run Linux software without a full-on Virtual Machine, since the underlying kernel is the same.
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Re:Google’s Fuchsia OS Confirmed to Have Android App Support... by pjmlp on Thursday January 03, 2019 @01:02PM (#18817334)
It also means that they can be ported to other OSes with zero dependencies on Linux.
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