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According to the Wikipedia, there is a 2-year diff between the two release: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenJDK https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_%28operating_system%29 .


No, May 2007 to September 2008 isn't two years, it's 1⅓ years. And Android had been in the works for years before that. (Even before the 2006 promise by Sun that Java would be released as open source.)




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