Java may still be the first programming language that springs to mind when you think about Android, but you don’t have to use Java for Android development. In fact, Kotlin is now Google’s ...

Android's Achilles heel, aside from the "toxic hellstew" of security patches and fragmentation -- which is outside the scope of this article and my Survival Test series -- is Java.

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.

When Android first came out, Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz, then Java’s owner, greeted the news of Android’s birth with “heartfelt congratulations.” Oh, by the way, anyone could look, use, and ...

While many legal experts initially thought Android might be taken to the cleaners in Google's Java fight with Oracle, it looks like the mobile operating system has dodged a bullet.

As detailed in the post iPhone version of the Android planning document, version 99.3 and dated November 2007, that meant dumping compatibility with Sun's Java and building a Java-like runtime ...

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 ...

Android development stinks because Java (Also known as the second least efficient programming language in existence, second only to Befunge-93) and using C/C++ will be great!

Java Doesn’t Have to Be Heavy “People often think Java means heavyweight,” Rocher says, but that reputation has more to do with the APIs and tools that the JVM provides to build frameworks.