So... Android is built on the Linux kernel... and these people were making an "Android" PC OS? How is that not essentially just another Linux distro?
What exactly, was the point?
What exactly, was the point?
They used Busybox (switched to Toybox at some point) for the core utils for example.
And the GUI stack is all custom to Android. No X11 etc (You can however install some APKs that allow you to run X11 programs locally. A reminder of the flexibiliy of X11, imo).
To get Android apps running on ChromeOS (based of Gentoo, iirc), both developed by Google, they had to "containerize" the Android environment.
This should be a good indication of how divergent from desktop Linux Android has become.
Considering how... entrenched the OS market is, it's not easy to have a solid value proposition for creating a _new_ OS.