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Originally Posted by ApK
Someone with more than my Hello World experience with Linux and Android dev can correct me if I'm wrong, but a book on Linux development won't help any with Android development.
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Yes and no. If you're using the NDK, you have access to more conventional "Linux" development tools. It is something that Google discourages, but it has been used to port many open source libraries.
More to the point: the end user can download a terminal emulator from the Google Play store, tell it to establish a local connection, and have access to the Unix shell. I'm not going to claim that it is identical to a conventional Linux desktop shell (it usually uses busybox rather than the GNU utilities), yet a Linux user will find the layout of the non-Android specific parts of the system familiar.