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 ...

Company touts technologies like 3D capabilities and cloud efforts at its Google I/O conference as CEO Eric Schmidt promoted Web-based programming as a successor to mainframe and PC models ...

Android is the world's most popular mobile phone OS and Java is the de facto programming language for Android application development. While Android's version of Java isn't exactly the same as what ...

Since 2010, Google and Oracle have been locked in a pitched legal battle — this week, Oracle is seeking almost $9 billion in damages in a second trial. At the heart of Oracle's lawsuit is the ...

Aside from its use of Java syntax, Google's Android SDK implementation is largely independent from Oracle's. It uses its own compiler and runtime tailored specifically for Android.

Tiobe's index is based on programming-related search queries on 25 search engines, including Google, Yahoo, Wikipedia and Bing. It's not a perfect system, but it is meant to reflect changes in a ...

Happier times: Sun and Google were Java allies in 2005, when Sun's then-president Jonathan Schwartz, left, and CEO Scott McNealy, center, joined Google CEO Eric Schmidt to tout a partnership that ...

Google just announced that it will officially support Kotlin on Android as a “first-class” language. Kotlin is a super new programming language built by JetBrains, which also coincidentally ...

Answer by Gayle Laakmann McDowell, Ex-Googler, Author of Cracking the Coding Interview and The Google Resume, If there are two programmers who are equally good, but one knows Java and the other ...

Accessible alternatives to Java -- like Python -- exist and offer rookie programmers a simpler standard upon which to lay their foundation. Given its tendency toward verbosity and strict syntax, it ...