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by qxcv 4910 days ago
This is highly amusing. As the developer on the official AOSP ticket for this said, Java apps get their random bits from RandomBitsSupplier, which, quite clearly, does not read from /dev/urandom, as evidenced by line 72 in https://android.googlesource.com/platform/libcore/+/master/l...:

  private static final String DEVICE_NAMES[] = { "/dev/urandom" /*, "/dev/random" */ };