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by pjmlp 707 days ago
Yet in 2024, the anti-Java speech with Java 8 samples continues, and they only updated ART to Java 17 LTS, because Android was losing out on Modern Java ecosystem.

While using Android Studio, Gradle, Android SDK, Kotlin compiler, D8, R8, all running on top of Java Virtual Machine, using Java libraries from Maven Central.

So much for breaking free from Oracle.