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249 - Java and the JDK: Powering the Android Landscape with Michael Bailey

Fragmented - Android Developer Podcast

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Android Studio: A Development Tool

There's a lot of different JREs, JDKs and runtimes involved when you have JREs. Android Studio is a Java application with its UI written in swing running on your desktop. You may want to install your own JDK because in an Android application, typically you're using Gradle as your build tool. And then Gradle also spawns off a lot of other processes that are going to need their own versions of JDK.

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