Engineers at Facebook parent Meta have detailed their multi-year effort to convert the codebases for its numerous Android apps from the Java programming language over to Kotlin. That's a large ...

As it so happens, Google has made it very easy to develop your own Android software. There’s only one problem: you’ve got to do it in Java. Looking to get away from all that bloat and overhead ...

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He offered a brief criticism of former Android boss Andy Rubin's handling of Java in the development of Android. Gosling in 2011 had a brief stint at Google following Oracle's acquisition of Sun.

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 ...