Chapter 3. Android Is Weird

It really is. Although it is built on the familiar Linux kernel, Android has a completely custom user space, and while many of its functionalities are rewrites of their GNU cousins, some are either new or have significantly different functions than their desktop counterparts. Because of these differences, these systems had to be modified to support SELinux. In this chapter, we will:

The coverage of these systems will be moderate, but we will present more intricate details of each system later, when appropriate, in our exploratory investigation of SE for Android.