Google explains that this change stemmed from politics Android, which is a system created by the open-source community. OpenJDK is replacing the old API (Open Java Development Kit) will facilitate the work of developers to create applications for Android.
Of course this is not the only reason. The existing Java libraries used by Android are Oracle, which came into their possession in 2010 after the acquisition of Sun At that time, Oracle filed a lawsuit against Google, in which the company found that the giant from Mountain View illegally uses the libraries to which patent rights have Oracle.
The case is pending for 5 years, since none of the parties He wants to accept the judgments that were made in it so far. In June 2015 the US Supreme Court agreed to hear both sides and sent the case back to a lower subclassing in which Google once again will want to prove that to date legitimately used the Java libraries, for which the law claims to Oracle and demands therefore payment.
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