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by pjmlp 2643 days ago
ART will run on top of Fuchsia, it is already being ported, you can check the merge commits.

As we always need to remember Linux fans, the fact that Android uses a Linux kernel is irrelevant to userspace.
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jillesvangurp 2643 days ago
I have no idea what ART is but I doubt it addresses all concerns I listed above. On Android, there are plenty of native libraries and apps these days as well. I'm pretty sure these don't work as is without a compatibility layer that essentially replicates a lot of linux/posix stuff, which Fuchsia does not implement.

In any case, it wouldn't be the first time that Google walks away after putting lots of development in something. In general, I think they are closer to merging Android and Chrome OS than they are to replacing either with Fuchsia (not to mention convincing OEMs like Samsung to actually use it).

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pjmlp 2643 days ago
ART is the Android RunTime, basically the large majority of Android's userspace.

Those native libraries are forbidden to use Linux specific features, only these APIs are sancioned.

https://developer.android.com/ndk/guides/stable_apis

Since Android 7, Google has been claping down NDK users that try to used anything that isn't part of that list.

Since Android 8, APKs are only allowed to reach for their own internal filesystem and use SAF for anything else. Something that will be further enforced on Android Q, so no luck trying to peek into /dev, /share and similar.

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