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Besides the kernel, there is very little of "desktop" (or should i say GNU/Linux) present in Android. They used Busybox (switched to Toybox at some point) for
by digi_owl 9y ago
Besides the kernel, there is very little of "desktop" (or should i say GNU/Linux) present in Android.
They used Busybox (switched to Toybox at some point) for the core utils for example.
And the GUI stack is all custom to Android. No X11 etc (You can however install some APKs that allow you to run X11 programs locally. A reminder of the flexibiliy of X11, imo).
To get Android apps running on ChromeOS (based of Gentoo, iirc), both developed by Google, they had to "containerize" the Android environment.
This should be a good indication of how divergent from desktop Linux Android has become.