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Rubin came from Danger, which was a J2ME company. They started Android (pre-Google) as yet another J2ME company. When they were eventually acquired by Google, G

• mdwrigh2 13y ago
  But they didn't intend to build a J2ME platform, but rather a shim for J2ME apps via some compatibility mode. From some of the original Google documentation: > "Leverage Java for its existing base of developers. Build a useful app framework (not J2ME). Support J2ME apps in compatibility mode. Provide an opTMobileized JVM (Dalvik)," one slide reads. I think there's a pretty big difference between building a platform on top of something, and planning to support it via a shim layer. At that point Android was already planning on breaking from J2ME by supporting things like JNI (which is listed on that doc but is explicitly not included in a conforming CLDC implementation for security reasons). Besides, the only microedition APIs that are in the platform are a few khronos libs, so I really don't think any of that thought really affected Android as we know it today (which was the parents original argument). I will give you that there's more JavaME heritage than I thought, but it was thrown out pretty quickly as far as I can tell.