So as java has been created since the 20th century when android hadn't been in existence, I was just wondering what java had been used for before the existence of android. The major thing java is used for is android.
My question is what other things can java be used for apart from creating android apps? I want to continue learning android. Thank you

Java was mostly used in creating Hadoop one of the most popular softwares used by organisations for data science tasks.

A lot i tells ya, just a lot!

crunchyDope:
A lot i tells ya, just a lot!

Please can I know some

crunchyDope:
A lot i tells ya, just a lot!

Ah swear, just about anything... You name it, Java can do it

Olalekank:

Please can I know some

anything!
web, desktops apps, mobile, few games anything!

Embedded systems should be one of them etc.

Thank you all for the answers! I have decided I would be continuing

Can Java be used for AI? I don't think so...

Any other thing you can think of.

Olalekank:

My question is what other things can java be used for apart from creating android apps? I want to continue learning android.

Java is no longer the official language for building Android apps, Kotlin is. So, soon Java could be marked totally deprecated for android apps.

Olalekank:
Thank you all for the answers!
I have decided I would be continuing

Olalekank:
So as java has been created since the 20th century when android hadn't been in existence, I was just wondering what java had been used for before the existence of android. The major thing java is used for is android.
My question is what other things can java be used for apart from creating android apps? I want to continue learning android. Thank you

Is GOOGLE still existing?

DanielTheGeek:
Java is no longer the official language for building Android apps, Kotlin is. So, soon Java could be marked totally deprecated for android apps.

Java will never be deprecated for android. Too many code bases in it . The language is still evolving ...
Google knows better than to attract the wrath of java fanatics.

java can be used for anything except low level system programming.
Any application u use that is not a system tool couldve been written in java,
for raw speed most apps are not suitable for writing in java- because of the garbage collector in the jvm.
popular java apps include:

limewire - that file sharing program that was popular in the mid 2000s.
apache ant - java built tool
apache tomcat - java http server
eclipse ide
netbeans ide
opera mini browser
jedit
jython
jruby

DanielTheGeek:
Java is no longer the official language for building Android apps, Kotlin is. So, soon Java could be marked totally deprecated for android apps.

20 years from now, people will still be developing android apps using java bro

asalimpo:

Java will never be deprecated for android. Too many code bases in it . The language is still evolving ...
Google knows better than to attract the wrath of java fanatics.

You may want to correct your statement on Java not becoming deprecated, I mean, every language is prone to that... It may hang around the corner for a pretty long time, but while it might champ at embedded devices and other stuff like building compilers and interpreters, it may no longer (in a very long time) be suitable for Android apps and Google has shown the sign by adopting Kotlin whereas Kotlin has also shown that Java is still important by supporting Java compatible byte code when targeting JVM and supporting it's libraries.

DanielTheGeek:
Java is no longer the official language for building Android apps, Kotlin is. So, soon Java could be marked totally deprecated for android apps.

and who told you that

netbeans1:


and who told you that

Lol, well check kotlinlang.org

DanielTheGeek:


Lol, well check kotlinlang.org

Bro java was never deprecated or will ever be deprecated for developing android apps

And kotlin ain't the official language for android dev either

#fact

netbeans1:


Bro java was never deprecated or will ever be deprecated for developing android apps

And kotlin ain't the official language for android dev either

#fact

Are you the one that will decide what is official for Android? Well except you're Sundar Pichai, Larry Page or Dave Burke, You have absolutely no say as to the decisions of the Android OS. It seems you don't know Google owns Android and can do as they please with it... Kotlin is official on Android, take or leave it.

Well, considering the fact that oracle owns java now, there might be a future shift from the java ecosystem.

Even google has preference for openjdk (source: heresy).

What's important is the problem being solved by java. For me, it's structure and threading.

Personally, javascript is looking very beautiful these days, especially from the eyes of typescript. If that ever become as useful for programming...

Java is used for programming computers.

Olalekank:
So as java has been created since the 20th century when android hadn't been in existence, I was just wondering what java had been used for before the existence of android. The major thing java is used for is android.
My question is what other things can java be used for apart from creating android apps? I want to continue learning android. Thank you

3 years later and Java is my preferred language, next to JS

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