Many Google teams have also been on a similar journey from Java to Kotlin for both Android and the server-side, culminating in over 11m lines of Kotlin code (as of October 2022).

Java vs C app performance - Gary explains 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?

While Java is primarily known for its role in Android development, it also supports cross-platform development through frameworks like Codename One and J2ObjC, making it more versatile than often ...

Google's Android software infringes on several patents related to Java, which Oracle acquired from Sun earlier this year, Oracle says in suit filed Thursday.

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

Google is tightening security measures around Android app distribution, the company announced on Monday. Starting next year, ...

My ZDNet colleague Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols is eager to step up to Google’s defense in the company’s legal battle with Oracle. To that end, he has written “A Google Android and Java history ...

Google acquired an existing Android project in 2005, which was essentially an offshoot of Danger, the Java platform powering TMobile's SideKick slider phone.

Non-game Android apps are normally written in Java, but a group inside Google is experimenting with a whole new way of writing Android apps using Dart, Google's in-house Web development language.