Only developers without Android experience think that.
Android is all about Java.
The NDK is there as layer for implementing Java native methods, games and high performance audio, and general purpose native libraries from other OSes.
This is what you are allowed to call from C and C++ on Android:
"Only developers without Android experience think that."
Think what? That Linux is malware-free? If you're addressing me only, I'm just asking for clarity on the dataset in question, not expressing an opinion about the safety of the platform.
No, that Android having Linux as kernel is actually relevant to Android programming.
Given the OS architecture Google can easily announce a version using other kernel, given that there is very little UNIX specific on what can be done with public NDK APIs.
Only those customising Android builds would be impacted.
Android is all about Java.
The NDK is there as layer for implementing Java native methods, games and high performance audio, and general purpose native libraries from other OSes.
This is what you are allowed to call from C and C++ on Android:
https://developer.android.com/ndk/reference/index.html
https://developer.android.com/ndk/guides/stable_apis.html
Trying to call anything else terminates the application as of Android 7.
https://developer.android.com/about/versions/nougat/android-...
As of the upcoming Android 8, calling syscalls outside of what libc requires leads to application termination as well.
https://developer.android.com/preview/behavior-changes.html#...
Basically nothing really UNIX specific and could be implemented with any other kind of kernel (hence Fuchsia).