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.

Telephony manager, which is part of the Android application framework, provides a telephony API to user applications. It consists of the android.telephony and android.telephony.gsm Java packages. This ...

In 2006 email thread, Rubin said that Sun owned the intellectual property and brand for Java and that the Java.lang APIs were copyrighted. Over the next several years his thinking changed.

What Oracle is arguing, however, is that because Android uses the copyrighted Java APIs, it infringes on Oracle intellectual property. Android developers are free to use Java, just not its APIs.

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 ...

It all goes back to the way Java APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) are used in Android. If you want programs to communicate with each other, you need an API, and Oracle thinks it should be ...

Google's next version of Android , tentatively known as Android N, won't implement proprietary Java APIs from Oracle. The mobile operating system will instead rely solely on OpenJDK which is an ...

Testimony by economist Adam Jaffe was the final word Day 8 of the third Oracle vs. Google trial, which may continue for another few weeks.

It all goes back to the way Java APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) are used in Android. If you want programs to communicate with each other, you need an API, and Oracle thinks it should be ...