While some people may use Java "because Android", rest assured that far, far more people do Android development "because Java". The reason Google chose Android

While some people may use Java "because Android", rest assured that far, far more people do Android development "because Java". The reason Google chose Android was clearly because they needed a large number of people writing many apps as quickly as possible for their platform to compete with the iPhone. Google got a much better deal out of Java. Sun/Oracle got nothing in return.