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Re:Google’s Fuchsia OS Confirmed to Have Android App Support... by izacus on Thursday January 03, 2019 @02:28PM (#18818345)
Why would they? Since 8.0, Android is fully separate from Linux kernel through its so-called Treble layer (see https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2017/05/here-comes... ) and doesn't really need Linux or POSIX sematics for its functionality.
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Re:Google’s Fuchsia OS Confirmed to Have Android App Support... by pjmlp on Thursday January 03, 2019 @02:40PM (#18818474)
Since Treble's adoption was rather low, given that it was optional when updating from Android 7, one of the decisions on Android 9 was to make it even more independent with the introduction of Generic System Image.

https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2018/11/an-update-...

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Re:Google’s Fuchsia OS Confirmed to Have Android App Support... by izacus on Thursday January 03, 2019 @03:55PM (#18819193)
What do you mean by low adoption? Every device launching with 8 has to support it.
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Re:Google’s Fuchsia OS Confirmed to Have Android App Support... by pjmlp on Thursday January 03, 2019 @04:20PM (#18819400)
About 12% worldwide adoption, about when Android 9 got released.

OEMs got around Treble certification by releasing mostly devices with Android 7 on them.

And given that OEMs were the ones supposed to push Treble updates not Google, even those that released devices with 8 weren't that active pushing them.

Which has finally made Google include some update requirements on the Play Services access.

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