Twitter confirmed that updating the app will restrict such practices. The documents revealed a further effort by the intelligence agencies to intercept Google Maps searches and queries submitted from Android and different smartphones to collect location info in bulk. Google engineer Patrick Brady as quickly as said within the firm’s developer convention that “Android is not Linux”, with Computerworld adding that “Let me make it easy for you, without Linux, there is not any Android”. Ars Technica wrote that “Although Android is constructed on high of the Linux kernel, the platform has very little in common with the traditional desktop Linux stack”. Requirements for the minimal quantity of RAM for units running Android 7.1 vary from in practice 2 GB for best hardware, right down to 1 GB for the commonest display. Android helps all versions of OpenGL ES and Vulkan (and model 1.1 out there for some devices).
