You said "if they contribute to the compiled binary", and the whole point @nicebyte was making is that they don't.
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It really isn't, though. Android's code base might as well be written by a different company from e.g. gmail on iOS, or window chrome. The fact that they're in the same tree and written by different departments in one big company doesn't increase the complexity.
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I just don't even. GMail on Android depends on GMail architectural decisions AND Android architectural decisions, right? A bug in either will make a bug in it. A bug in Chrome makes a bug in GMail client. A bug in search makes a bug in Assistant.
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