The Linux Plumbers Conference is this week, and since Android is one of the biggest distributors of the Linux kernel in the world, Google software engineer Todd Kjos stopped by for a progress ...

The newest Linux kernel, version 3.3, includes code from Google's Android project. That should help both Android and other Linux-based projects.

Brady over-stated the case. Android is Linux. To be exact, version, 2.2, Froyo, runs on top of the 2.6.32 Linux kernel. To quote from the Android developer page, Dalvik, Android’s Java-based ...

Since Android is a complete operating system, we can immediately rule out classifying Android as a Linux kernel even if it relies on one. A Linux distribution, or distro.

Unified Android kernel won’t solve Android fragmentation. There is also an important limit to Google’s proposal. Currently, Google is only suggesting that the kernel needs to be stable for a ...

Engineers at Facebook parent Meta have detailed their multi-year effort to convert the codebases for its numerous Android apps from the Java programming language over to Kotlin. That's a large ...

Android is the opposite: only minimal changes to the kernel, but a user-space wholly unlike that of any other Unix system.In fact, Android's user-space is so different from stock Linux, you can ...

Swift is not likely to replace Kotlin or Java on Android in the near future, but some developers may find it useful for cross ...