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Google's googly: Drops use of Oracle's Java APIs in Android N as lawsuit rages on

As the epic legal battle between the tech titans over use of Oracle’s Java in Google’s Android operating system rages on, there has been a slight twist in the tale. Google is replacing the use of Java application programming interfaces in Android with OpenJDK – the open source version of Oracle’s Java Development Kit. According to a report by VentureBeat Google has confirmed that Android N will rely solely on OpenJDK, rather than Android’s own earlier implementations of Java APIs. Google released a beta of the Android platform on November 5, 2007 noting that it would use some of Java technologies – something that Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz appreciated saying they had ‘strapped another set of rockets to the community’s momentum’.

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