And I'm surprised you made this comment. I'm no fan of Oracle, but they've done a lot more for Java then Sun did since version 6 came out in 2006. Actually, I'm interested in why you feel this way, would you care to elaborate?

Well if you want to develop for android, Java is the way to go. Of course you could use Scala or Clojure, but without knowing Java, you probably wouldn't understand many library demos, and documentation.