>I'm no longer holding out hope that Java 8/9 will ever get to Android. If you take a look at the public commit on the AOSP jack & jill repo, you can see that

>I'm no longer holding out hope that Java 8/9 will ever get to Android. If you take a look at the public commit on the AOSP jack & jill repo, you can see that google is working on Java 8 integration : https://android-review.googlesource.com/#/c/150214/2/jack-tests/src/com/android/jack/test/toolchain/JackBasedToolchain.java https://android-review.googlesource.com/#/c/150214/2/jack-te... It is very surprising though, I would have expected Google to explore other options due to the hard back compatibility story and with Oracle ready to push this legal battle as far as possible. As far as Swift on Android ? From a developer point of view, there would probably be far worse choices (one could argue that Kotlin would be a better choice, if only because of Java 6 as a target) but yeah even without considering the legal aspect, I doubt that Google would be ready to use a language managed by its direct competitor.