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Android apps can use native binaries. Replacing linux without breaking compatibility with apps is rather impossible (unless with some linux compatibility layer)

• pjmlp 10y ago
  Have you ever used the NDK? Android apps are only allowed to link to these specific set of libraries. https://developer.android.com/ndk/guides/stable_apis.html https://developer.android.com/ndk/guides/stable_apis.html To put an hand to the cowboy programmers that were linking to system libraries not part of that list, starting with Android 7, they will be terminated if they try to do so. https://developer.android.com/about/versions/nougat/android-7.0-changes.html#ndk https://developer.android.com/about/versions/nougat/android-... The only form of binaries allowed on a standard Android device are shared objects. The Native Activity is actually just the native method calls of https://developer.android.com/reference/android/app/NativeActivity.html https://developer.android.com/reference/android/app/NativeAc... that loads a shared object with a predefined name. None of the stable NDK APIs are GNU/Linux specific and the POSIX layer isn't fully compliant with the standard, many APIs like e.g. SYS V IPC are missing. http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~vatlidak/resources/POSIXmagazine.pdf http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~vatlidak/resources/POSIXmagazine... https://roxanageambasu.github.io/publications/eurosys2016posix.pdf https://roxanageambasu.github.io/publications/eurosys2016pos... Rooted devices don't count, as that is not what people get on the store when they buy an Android device.