In a ruling on Monday, the Supreme Court found that Google could legally use elements of Oracle’s Java application programming interface (API) code when building Android. “Google’s copying ...

Oracle is contending that 37 Java APIs used in Android are subject to copyright. In contrast to Rubin's 2006 statement on APIs, Google's lead lawyer Robert Van Nest said last week ...

Google is replacing its implementation of the Java application programming interfaces (APIs) in Android with OpenJDK, the open source version of Oracle’s Java Development Kit ().The news first ...

Google has announced a move away from Oracle’s proprietary Java APIs. Beginning with the next version of their mobile operating system (Android N), the new standard will be OpenJDK, an open ...

Rubin: “Yes, in the context of this I think that I meant the APIs were copyrighted ... version of the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) would be unlikely because of the Android team’s prior ...

In other words, Google did not infringe on Oracle's copyright when it cloned 37 Java APIs in building its Android mobile operating system. Though Google copied the organization of the APIs ...

More info. A jury returned a favorable verdict for Google today in their trial with Oracle over use of Java API’s in Android. The jury, after three days of deliberation, says that Google’s re ...

provides a telephony API to user applications. It consists of the android.telephony and android.telephony.gsm Java packages. This official telephony API is fully documented in the Android developer ...

and in building Android, Google mimicked the APIs for the Java platform. This lets developers build Android applications using the Java programming language.” Were Oracle to wins its appeal and ...

An economist testifying for Oracle in federal court May 18, Day 8 of its copyright infringement case against Google, told the jury that the search company’s use of Java APIs in Android should ...