Java is the official programming language of Android and it is the basis for many components of the OS itself, plus it is found at the core of Android’s SDK. Java has a couple of interesting ...

At the turn of the century, enthusiasm for Java was waning. Embedded Java in browsers died as soon as JavaScripting technologies proved themselves as simpler and more secure alternatives, and on the ...

Whether you want to begin coding in Java or just wish to run Java apps, you first need to learn how to install Java. In this post, we’ll see how to do that. Why do you need to install Java?

Java apps are not new to anyone in the world. It became famous worldwide due to the invention of the internet. It has revolutionized people's communication, and Java apps have brought the world more ...

Android could also now flesh out its "multimedia" section, now called "Media Player," which now read "the Product will support a Media Player capable of managing, importing and playing back content ...

Oracle wins big in protracted legal fight over use of Java APIs in Android, as appeals court rejects pro-Google ruling. Seth Rosenblatt Former Senior Writer / News Senior writer Seth Rosenblatt ...

Historically used most widely in mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets, the Android operating system (OS) has taken on new markets outside this space. Developers using ARM processors tend to ...

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Kotlin offers big advantages over Java for JVM and Android development, and plays nicely with Java in the same projects. Kotlin is a general purpose, free, open source, statically typed “pragmatic” ...

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 first ...

[This article is part of a continuing series on Android, Google's new mobile phone platform. It is excerpted from an upcoming book. --Ed] Some parts of Android will be familiar, such as the Linux ...