4 ms·
Didn't Google end up importing OpenJDK code?
by lima 8y ago
Didn't Google end up importing OpenJDK code?
- pjmlp 8y agoPartially, you cannot pick a random jar from Maven Central and be confident that it will work on Android. They only support part of the standard library, the OpenJDK parts have been cherry picked and not all are made available on the same Android version and then there are the bytecodes that were introduced since Java 7. And for Java language support, you need to have Android Oreo version of ART as not all language features get desugared into older versions. There is some AOSP activity related to Java 9, but so far Google has been silent if there will be any further improvements beyond Java 8.