Linux n Android

This page is intended to help understand Android for someone coming from Linux background. In the process we will make an attempt to list key differences between Linux and Android.Understanding Android is critical if one wants to write native Android Applications.

The differences are:

Android does not have a native X Window System. Android uses proprietory libraries on top of Linux kernel. Uses Bionic libc as core library and is different from libc/glibc that Linux users know.