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heavyset_go
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Virtual Machine as a core Android Primitive
Pretty sure Android already uses Linux containers/namespaces for app isolation.
seabrookmx
on Dec 6, 2023
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You're thinking of ChromeOS I think, which uses a combination of containers and virtualization (via the same VMM in this article) for Linux and Android apps..
heavyset_go
on Dec 9, 2023
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Yeah, apparently Android uses users and namespaces, but not containers as we typically know them like ChromeOS does.
saagarjha
on Dec 6, 2023
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It uses separate UIDs mostly.
phone8675309
on Dec 6, 2023
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Along with SELinux
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