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No, Android does not have any of this because Apache Harmony was killed by the Java 7 API changes. Namely, the documentation was no longer open, and Oracle withheld the TCK, effectively killing Harmony by making it uncertifiable as a Java implementation.

Harmony didn't die per se - It was killed by Oracle. Google's rationale for engineering a Java-ish VM with Java APIs was only legal up until Java 6.



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