Understanding Android System Architecture Beyond the Application Layer
Android development often begins with Activities, Services, ViewModels, Jetpack Compose, databases, and networking libraries. These are important, but they represent only the upper section of a much larger software stack running every time an Android device wakes up. Underneath your application sits a sophisticated collection of framework services, runtime components, native libraries, hardware abstraction layers, system processes, and the Linux kernel. Together, these layers determine how an app gets memory, accesses a camera, renders graphics, plays audio, communicates with another ...
