The Java Runtime Environment provides a “container” for those elements and your code to run in. The JDK is the “compiler” that interprets the code itself and executes it.

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).

Again, remember that the absolute speed isn’t important here, but rather the difference in the time taken to run the Java code compared to the C code, on the same device. 32-bit Android 4.4 ...

The case concerned approximately 12,000 lines of code that Google used to build the Android operating system copied from Java developed by Sun Microsystems, which Oracle acquired in 2010.

A jury found in 2016 that Google’s use of declaring code — and the structure, sequence, and organization of Java APIs — was fair use.

Facebook Infer is used internally to find null pointer dereferences and resource and memory leaks on code modified by engineers before it's moved to production. It's currently used to scan Objective-C ...

Oracle contends that Google's Android platform violated some of its patents and copyrights around Java and its APIs, which it acquired from Sun in a $7.4 billion deal at the beginning of 2010.