Android uses AOT compilation to native code since ART replaced Dalvik, no different than iOS APPs.

https://source.android.com/devices/tech/dalvik/#AOT_compilat...

Even with Android N, they are interpreted, JIT compiled with PGO, and eventually AOT compiled to native code when the device in not being used.

Also iOS supports LLVM bitcode with AOT compilation at iTune infrastructure since iOS 9.

Language runtimes have APIs, that is how they interact with compiler generated code.

Using pure C on iOS means calling the API entry points of the Objective-C runtime

https://developer.apple.com/reference/objectivec/objective_c...