Meanwhile, Linux’s permissions-based security model is at the core of Android’s expansive app permissions system. The Linux kernel has proven to be incredibly flexible and powerful even 30 ...

Now Android 10 API makes Linux emulation very difficult: > Untrusted apps that target Android 10 cannot invoke exec() on files within the app’s home directory.

And yes, I know that Android is Linux-based, but that’s irrelevant to the topic at hand. They can’t run the same software, and gaming handhelds running the two have a night-and-day difference.

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 ...

Today, Linux is only available on the latest Pixel devices running Android 15. When Android 16 arrives later this year, it's expected that all sufficiently robust Android phones will be able to ...

As reported by Android Authority, the latest beta of Android 16 changes all that. With beta 4, you can customize the space allocated to the LTE to consume nearly all your Android device storage.

Although Android technically runs on top of Linux, generally most Android devices abstract away the underlying Linux-ness of these machines. In theory this is a good thing; we wouldn’t necess… ...

Updates to Windows Subsystem for Linux and Windows Subsystem for Android make cross-platform development on Windows easy. Topics Spotlight: AI-ready data centers ...