Google is eyeing up a generic Linux kernel for Android, but even that won't fix Android's fragmentation issues. Here's why. Android fragmentation will never end, here's why - Android Authority ...

Several components, including binder and ashmem, have been accepted back into the staging area in Linux 3.3. Binder is an interprocess communication system that, among other things, relays method ...

Google is planning to integrate Android components into Chromebooks to speed up the arrival of new AI features. The ChromeOS team will use the Android Linux kernel and Android frameworks within ...

Last year, at Linux Plumbers Conference 2018, Google announced its initial investigation into bringing the Android kernel closer to mainline Linux. This year it shared a bit more detail on its ...

In the future, Google says that ChromeOS will use “portions of the Android stack, like the Android Linux kernel and Android frameworks, as part of the foundation of ChromeOS.” Why? In a word ...

"Upstream Linux introduced software emulation for PAN in kernel version 4.3 for ARM and 4.10 in ARM64. We have backported both features to Android kernels starting from 3.18," notes Tolvanen.

The future versions of Android will be more resilient to exploits thanks to developers' efforts to integrate the latest Linux kernel defenses into the operating system.a ...

Some parts of Android will be familiar, such as the Linux Kernel, OpenGL, and the SQL database. Others may be completely foreign, such as Android's idea of the application life cycle. You'll need ...