There are two approaches to creating user interfaces for Android: a procedural approach (within the Java source code) or a declarative approach (in an XML file). Either one is valid, but the ...

Kotlin is a general purpose, free, open source, statically typed ... safer and more concise than Java code, and that Kotlin and Java files can coexist in Android apps, so that Kotlin is not ...

That's a large task for a company with thousands of developers and many large Android ... code in Java (the second approach is how the Linux kernel project and the Android Open Source Project ...

But this time, instead of debating whether Google infringed on Oracle’s copyright when it used the Java APIs in Android ... Oracle as a defender of free and open source software.

Android engineers ... for the Java and Kotlin programming languages to Compiler Explorer, an open source Cloud-based tool aimed at exploring how compilers work by compiling code in real-time.

While Java is the default programming language for Android, it isn’t always the best method for making apps, specifically games. Many engines used to make Android games use the Android Native ...

Google is not that kind of decision. Justice Stephen Breyer’s opinion for a 6-2 majority decisively rejects Oracle’s challenge to Google’s use of computer code from the Java SE platform in its Android ...