If you’re not a mobile developer working with Android, chances are you haven’t heard of Kotlin. If you are an Android programmer, it’s the best thing since sliced bread. While Java has long been ...

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 preferred ...

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” ...

Heads up, programmers: Google opted to create its own Java standards and technology for its Android mobile phone, not piggyback on the existing Java Community Process. Google's Android software gives ...

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 ...

Sun Microsystems’ years-long effort to profit from Java has come to this: the chief executives of two of tech’s most powerful companies, Oracle and Google, being grilled in court. Scrapping over ...

If you’ve been thinking of becoming an Android developer, now is the time to jump in. Android is by far the most popular smartphone operating system and it gives developers a huge amount of ...