When Google designed Android, it wanted to make it readily accessible to developers familiar with the Java programming language, so it included in the Android operating system about 11,500 lines of ...

In the Google vs Oracle appeal, a federal circuit court repealed the 2016 ruling that Google didn't owe Oracle anything for using Java in Android. Uh oh.

Java is the official language of Android, but you can also write apps in C or C++ using the NDK. But which language is faster on Android?

Here's what Meta's developers have learned from moving their code base from the Java programming language over to Kotlin.

Web-based standards and native code are the future of application development on mobile devices.

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 (JDK). The news ...

Older Android devices can be had for a song, and in many cases are still packing considerable computational power. With built in networking, a battery, and a big touch screen, they could easily tak… ...

With Java running critical applications the world over, the nearly 25-year-old programming language must balance its community’s affection for its syntax with new trends.

The Supreme Court has sided with Google in the long-running Java API copyright case known as Oracle v. Google, finding that Google is legally entitled to use elements of Java APIs in its Android code.