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Question: why didn't Android use OpenJDK in the first place?

• sparky_ 11y ago
  Well they based most of their original implementation on Apache Harmony. Just speculating here but it may have been due to dates. OpenJDK's first release was ~2007 but IIRC the original pre-Google Android team started work in 2003 or 2004.
• yarrel 11y ago
  GPLphobia. This is a good study in why that's irrational.
  • yincrash 11y ago
    No, OpenJDK didn't exist when Android was in development.
• wmf 11y ago
  OpenJDK starts much slower and consumes more memory than Dalvik and some official Java APIs are terrible (e.g. AWT); it's likely that Android would have failed if it used official Java.