A new report from mobile development platform Realm claims that 2018 will be the “year of Kotlin” and the upstart programming language will overtake Java as the de facto language for Android ...

Java is one of the “official” languages that Google supports for Android development — the other being Kotlin.While the latter is increasingly favored by Google however, Java remains popular ...

Java has been supported since the earliest days of Android development, but Google is learning away from this option as it belongs to another company (Oracle/Sun Microsystems).

While Java has long been Android's main programming language, it's never a good fit. Java was written when "mobile" computing devices were 7-pound laptops. In the meantime, ...

Android is the world's most popular mobile phone OS and Java is the de facto programming language for Android application development. While Android's version of Java isn't exactly the same as what ...

After Kotlin was approved by Google for Android development, more than 50% of Android developers switched to it from Java, and also up to 20% of Java server-side developers.

Java also holds the top spot in the rival PyPL Popularity of Programming Language index, where it has a 24.3 percent share this month — the same share it had last month.

The top three languages developers plan to adopt include Google's system programming language Go, JetBrains' Kotlin, which Google supports for Android development, and Python.

Android applications use a range of standard platform resources for designing and programming user interfaces. Android applications use classes in the Java language to implement various aspects of ...

At its I/O 2017 developers conference today, Google announced Android is gaining official support for the Kotlin programming language, in addition to Java and C++. The news received the biggest ...