Brady over-stated the case. Android is Linux. To be exact, version, 2.2, Froyo, runs on top of the 2.6.32 Linux kernel. To quote from the Android developer page, Dalvik, Android’s Java-based ...

Android 12—which will be out any day now—promises to bring Android closer than ever to mainline Linux by shipping Google's "Generic Kernel Image" (GKI) to end-users.

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. Android’s security model ...

First up is Google, which forks the mainline kernel into "Android common" adding Android-specific changes. This is then forked by System-On-Chip (SoC) vendors like Qualcomm, and Samsung, to create ...

Android is built on top of the Linux kernel, but it has always used a heavily-modified version with changes from OEMs, chip manufacturers like Qualcomm and MediaTek, and Google.

Android Oreo has also introduced 'Privileged Access Never emulation', a software version of ARM v8.1's hardware-based PAN, which helps prevent the kernel from accessing user space memory directly ...

Google's Android president has confirmed the platform is set to replace ChromeOS – but not when. The ostensible reason is, we ...