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Google confirms that the next Android versions will use Oracles open-source OpenJDK instead the Java APIs, a strategic choice.

Google is leaving Java application programming interfaces (APIs) in future versions of its mobile operating system Android. The company is planning to adopt as an alternative an open source solution. The news was first reported by Hacker News who quoted a mysterious Android codebase commit Google confirmed to the VentureBeat news portal that future Android versions, starting from Android N will use the Open JDK implementation, rather the official implementation of the Java APIs. The experts have no doubts, this new change will allow the development community to easily interact and design better apps.”]

Source: https://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/43181/security/google-adopts-openjdk.html

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