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How much longer is Google willing to carry the OpenJDK7/8 baggage for Android? At what point does it become more economical to finally upgrade to Java 11?

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Give them a moment, the judge just handed them the go-ahead to clone Java API's last week ;)

They were already using OpenJDK code snippets before that, it is really not wanting to.

[I don't do Android, but, ] isn't Google trying to kinda pivot to Kotlin?

Yes, however Kotlin builds on top of Java and its FFI to Java libraries is a selling feature.

It doesn't help much Koltin if those libraries can no longer be accessed with its FFI.

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