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Android is highly coupled to Linux, and this is visible at various places in the SDK such as: https://developer.android.com/reference/android/system/Os?hl...

But even just behaviorally it doesn't pretend to be OS agnostic at all. Setting thread priorities isn't even abstracted, it's just "uses the Linux values for this" https://developer.android.com/reference/android/os/Process#s...

That doesn't prevent building an abstraction layer and plopping Android onto a different kernel, of course. After all that's what Microsoft did with WSL.



That is POSIX, nothing to do with Linux.




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