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 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.

The ongoing battle between Oracle and Google has been messy, to say the least. It all goes back to the way Java APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) are used in Android.

Google’s Android software ‘stack’ for mobile devices appears to be underpinned by a more substantially game-changing technology than at first thought in the form of the Google Dalvik virtual ...

Android apps side-loaded from the internet often come from shady sources. Google will soon identify them and block those of ...

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.