Traditionally, the Linux kernel is forked several times before it hits an Android phone, usually by each stakeholder in an Android device. First, Google forks the Linux kernel into "Android common ...

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

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.

Android is based on the Linux kernel because it’s a forked Linux-based operating system. When it comes to Android, Linux kernel development is split into three distinct stages.

Google has apparently been thinking along the same lines, and in a lengthy blog post Tuesday, the company announced that the Android Open Source Project now supports Rust for low-level OS components.

It seems that many changes from Android made their way into version 3.3 of the Linux kernel. This may not sound like much, but it’s a great example of the power of open source.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...