Comment by freedomben
5 days ago
Do you think it's legal reasons, technical reasons, NIH syndrome, or some other reason why Android doesn't use OpenJDK?
5 days ago
Do you think it's legal reasons, technical reasons, NIH syndrome, or some other reason why Android doesn't use OpenJDK?
A little bit of all of the above.
Android's usage of Java started right as Sun was being acquired by oracle and right before the jdk was GPLed.
... And I'll be. Apparently Android is using the OpenJDK since Android 7. [1]
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_Nougat
It isn't, check Gerrit commit history, they only take bits and pieces, plus ART doesn't do all bytecode equivalents. Some JVM bytecode don't have counterparts in Dex, rather get desugared into multiple instructions.
Was ART better at the time they wrote it? Do you know if there were any reasons other than perhaps legal, that caused them to go that route?
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