[pjmlp]

No, Android became popular due to the Google loving hipsters that believed in FOSS and AOSP, and OEMs that just love getting an OS for free with almost no strings attached.

Every other commercial Java vendor in this planet doesn't have any issue using standard Java tools, compiling with Java licenses and deliver JVMs able to run in embedded devices with soft and hard real time constraints.

Google for all their might is a special snowflake not able to do what the rest of the Java world is capable of.

[geodel]

This sounds strange. Seems Next you will start claiming that Oracle DB is popular because Oracle loving hipsters like paying for heavy licensing fee and support and not because it is high performance DB for critical enterprise requirements.