Sorry to be doubly redundant, but it is amazing how many people, including industry insiders, don’t understand the difference between Java and JavaScript. Here’s the low-down. Java, dev… ...

Java is the official language of Android, but you can also write apps in C or C++ using the NDK. ... with 64-bit Android 6.0 yielding the smallest difference between Java and C.

In this case, folks who write in C/C++ can provide API access to their applications for Java code.” The proposal, he said, describes technical mechanisms and conventions required for this to work.