Google’s Fuchsia OS Confirmed to Have Android App Support via Android Runtime

Re:Google’s Fuchsia OS Confirmed to Have Android App Support... by newnewpdro on Thursday January 03, 2019 @03:31PM (#18818997)

> get rid of the Linux/GNU heritage in Android

What GNU heritage? Android has only ever used the Linux kernel to get a leg up on hardware support in the early days. AFAIK there has never been any GNU userspace of any sort in anything Android related, much to the chagrin of the Linux community.

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Re:Google’s Fuchsia OS Confirmed to Have Android App Support... by pjmlp on Friday January 04, 2019 @02:01AM (#18822455)

Many never read beyond the headlines.

The NDK is constrained in what it can do, as per security concerns.

There is termux as port of GNU on Android, but only applications that rely on plain ISO C, ISO C++ can be ported.

Syscalls support is hit and miss per devices, as it isn't part of official NDKs APIs.

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