Indeed; looking back, we made the same points, and I don't think it's an isolated sentiment. While Android may have positively affected the Java ecosystem at fi

Indeed; looking back, we made the same points, and I don't think it's an isolated sentiment. While Android may have positively affected the Java ecosystem at first, official Java has long since evolved in appreciable ways that Android-compatible code can't use. It's awful, and until Android gets a wholesale port of the new APIs it won't get any better -- and despite Oracle being no angel, none of this is their fault.