Java is what Sun defines it to be. I think it's pretty funny to say "Oh only Sun defines it that way" because what you're saying is you're making up your own definition for what Java is and using that. You can certainly say Android is a lot like Java but one area where it's not at all like Java is runtime performance, since that's the topic under discussion it's important to highlight the distinction.

If I took C++ sourcecode, compiled it to Java bytecode and automatically rewrote the interface calls to be java platform calls then nobody would say that was C++. In particular nobody would be so bloody minded as to run a performance test on that setup and say "Wow the performance of C++ sure does suck doesn't it?".

The simple fact is Android is not Java.