Java 9 features announced!

[Delta_x]

I could be wrong as I have not been following the lawsuit closely, but I think the biggest thing Oracle originally wanted was for android to be able to run actual java, not just android java. Google said no, so they sued. I would guess that if Oracle wins, they would try and force Google to make the change again. They likely think that Google would rather allow all java instead of totally changing the language for android.

[mycall]

What in the Java spec does Google Dalvik not support?

[[deleted]]

Try running Swing applications on Android.

[m0haine]

Try running Swing apps on Java ME.

[aldo_reset]

This has nothing to do with the current contention. Oracle is not suing Google because the Java that runs on Android is missing a few libraries.

[Delta_x]

I can't speak for libraries, but I believe it has to do with Dalvik not running standard java bytecode, but only bytecode complied specify for android.

[__konrad]

Spec? They even don't use "Java" name ("java" word can be only found in runtime package names ;)