Thursday, December 31, 2015

The next version of Android will no longer use proprietary APIs … – wwwhat’s new? (Blog)

Android-OpenJDK

Android is currently the leading mobile operating system worldwide. To reach this point, you had to go a long nonexempt road legal problems, being the court battle with Oracle which biggest headache has given Google since Oracle acquired Sun.

this sense, and based on a mysterious change in the base code of Android, as noted by several users Hacker YCombinator, VentureBeat has been known by a spokesman for Google that the next version of Android, known for now as Android N and which is expected at any time in 2016, will stop using the proprietary API of JAVA, belonging to Oracle, only going to use the existing open source version, OpenJDK, also belonging to Oracle, using and in some parts of Android.

According to this spokesman, Google has been working with OpenJDK long made contributions to the project and expects to make further contributions to the OpenJDK project in the future. In this regard, it will note the changes the developers, not end users, as it will need to use less code when developing your applications, a fact that Google hopes developers will appreciate.

In addition, also you found that Google wants to use features available in Java 8, but perhaps most importantly, want to shelve the legal battle that continues to maintain with Oracle since 2010.

LikeTweet

No comments:

Post a Comment