alt Hacker NewsA little bit of all of the above.
Android's usage of Java started right as Sun was being acquired by oracle and right before the jdk was GPLed.
... And I'll be. Apparently Android is using the OpenJDK since Android 7. [1]
A little bit of all of the above.
Android's usage of Java started right as Sun was being acquired by oracle and right before the jdk was GPLed.
... And I'll be. Apparently Android is using the OpenJDK since Android 7. [1]
It isn't, check Gerrit commit history, they only take bits and pieces, plus ART doesn't do all bytecode equivalents. Some JVM bytecode don't have counterparts in Dex, rather get desugared into multiple instructions.