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.

The Vector API gives Java developers everything they need to tap into CPU-level performance gains for numerically intensive operations.

Oracle calls dibs on the Java APIs, even if Java itself is open. If the court agrees, it'll be bad news for developers everywhere.

Learn how to use a web API from within an Android app using Retrofit. Get posts from social media, store data on the cloud, and much more!

Google copied a portion of Oracle’s Java application programming interface (API) to create the Android operating system — the most installed mobile operating system in the world.

After a long legal battle, Google is moving to a completely open implementation of Java in Android N.

Android will be using OpenJDK, an open source-licensed version of Java SE that has been in development since 2007 (before Oracle bought Sun Microsystems and became the de facto owner of Java).

The BBC TV-Anytime Java API is for parsing, manipulating and creating TV-Anytime metadata. It is currently released under LGPL TV-Anytime is an open standard for metadata describing TV and radio ...

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.

Oracle's overall theme was that Google took a "shortcut" by using Java APIs. Android chief Andy Rubin stood to make $60 million in incentive payments if Android shipped on schedule. Oracle ...