For Android, Google grabs a Linux LTS kernel and changes it into the "Android Common" kernel. This can then go to an SoC vendor like Qualcomm, which modifies it to work on a particular SoC.

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 ...

Once the kernel has updated ... That all started with the ability to run Android Studio via Linux, meaning that Chrome OS users can now develop experiences for the world’s most popular mobile ...

The latest version of the Linux kernel was just released on Sunday, and there’s a little bonus which we think is worth considering. It seems that many changes from Android made their way into ...

this time by trying to get Android phones to work with a generic Linux kernel rather than customized one. Despite the fast adoption of new OS versions, Android is increasingly fragmented, ...

You could argue that Google’s Android, so popular on smartphones now, is the most popular Linux of all right now. There’s only one little problem with that: Android has continued to be apart ...

Google has outlined four key kernel hardening features its engineers have backported from upstream Linux to Android kernels on devices that ship with Android 8.0 Oreo. They will benefit "all ...

One recent example: the specifications of the second version of its flagship Surface Laptop Studio ... the Windows Subsystem for Linux and the Windows Subsystem for Android.

Android Studio will download and configure Gradle in the background. Once this is done, you can start developing your app. The emulator runs significantly faster on Linux compared to Windows.