When Google designed Android, it wanted to make it readily accessible to developers familiar with the Java programming language, so it included in the Android operating system about 11,500 lines of ...

The migration to Kotlin is underway, with Meta's Android app repositories already consisting of 10 million lines of Kotlin code. "Today, our Android apps for Facebook, Messenger, and Instagram ...

A lot of the time, code will look a fair bit simpler and shorter in Kotlin for Android as compared with Java. Consider the following example of adding an onClickListener to a floating action ...

Oh, by the way, anyone could look, use, and, yes, copy Java’s code too. You see, Sun had open-sourced Java under the GPLv2 in November 2006. Sun wanted Google and anyone else to use and copy its ...

Kotlin vs Java, the latter offers more succinct code – with no findViewByIds. If you compare a Kotlin class and a Java class that are performing the same work, then the Kotlin class will ...

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 ...

Developing mobile apps that work on both iPhones and Androids isn’t easy – or cheap. And given the shortage of developers that continues to plague IT, a framework that allows app shops to ...

When Google built Android atop Java, the company implemented several APIs — several that were owned by Oracle. For the past decade, Google v. Oracle has bounced around different courts.

Google has apparently been thinking along the same lines, and in a lengthy blog post Tuesday, the company announced that the Android Open Source Project now supports Rust for low-level OS components.