Comprehensive Android Developer Bootcamp - What's Android - Android Architecture

The video tutorial provides an overview of Android, emphasizing its open-source nature and the resulting fragmentation challenges for developers. It explains the Android platform architecture, detailing the Linux kernel, hardware abstraction layer, native libraries, and Android runtime. The Java API framework is introduced as a key tool for developers, allowing them to interface with the Android system. The tutorial also covers system apps and how manufacturers can customize them due to Android's open-source nature.

How do native libraries and the Android runtime interact within the Android architecture?

What is the purpose of the Java API framework in Android development?

Discuss the impact of manufacturers customizing system apps in Android devices.