Java SE and Android comparison

The Java SE and Android APIs address different hardware concerns and so they need to be different from one another. Even so there is a lot of overlap in the base and XML APIs, just as there is quite a lot that is different between them. The diagram presented below can be used as a quick guide if you want to compare the two of them. There is a lot of overlap between Swing and the Android user interface libraries, but they are presented in a different form on Android which is more appropriate for mobile devices. Much like Swing, Android has support for graphics, accessibility, input methods, widgets, media, etc. Emphasized instead is the special hardware support of the Android API like the telephony API which certainly don't have counterparts in Java SE. In order to discover more of the technical details, consult the API documentation.

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Android API