Android

[siva s]

Android is an open source and Linux-based operating system for mobile devices such as smart phones and tablet computers. Android was developed by the Open Handset Alliance, led by Google, and other companies.

[Sudeepkhana]

Android

Android apps, generally, continue running in a sandboxed Java-like virtual machine, so should be made in Java or some tongue that masterminds to virtual machine bytecode that uses the Android Programming interface.

"*Linux is much the same as an organization like Microsoft*"

(Not specifically, No Android's C runtime library, bionic, is not parallel perfect with the GNU libs, which most Linux circulations use)

[RH-Calvin]

Android OS is a Linux-based platform for mobile phones. Android was released under the Apache v2 open source license. Android was developed by Google and the Open Handset Alliance (OHA), a coalition of hardware, software and telecommunications companies.

[jackfernandos]

Android is a mobile operating system developed by Google inc, based on Linux and designed primarily for touchscreen mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets.