Android mostly runs within a JVM, it has command line features that are similar to Linux but they operate much differently to Linux.
It does use the Linux kernel and has structural similarities in the file system to Linux but it is not Linux, or at the very least it is very different from most versions of Linux and how they operate.
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Android mostly runs within a JVM, it has command line features that are similar to Linux but they operate much differently to Linux.
It does use the Linux kernel and has structural similarities in the file system to Linux but it is not Linux, or at the very least it is very different from most versions of Linux and how they operate.