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 ...

"Shifting away from Java, which we currently use for Android development, and over to Kotlin is not a trivial task," notes Omer Strulovich, a software engineer at Facebook.

Java is one of the “official” languages that Google supports for Android development — the other being Kotlin. While the latter is increasingly favored by Google however, Java remains ...

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 ...

That was the topic of the keynote speech that Amazon's director of app developer services gave at the AnDevCon conference in San Francisco last week. In his keynote presentation, Ethan Evans delved ...

Android web application development has become a crucial aspect of the digital world. With over 2.5 billion active Android devices worldwide, businesses and developers can’t afford to overlook ...

And I thought it's 30 years later and we're still there," said Gosling. Beyond safety and security considerations for Java, he wanted to ensure "developer velocity".

The new mobile Web may feature a clear separation between the frontend user interface (UI) and the backend applications. Burr Sutter presented multiple sessions at JBoss World 2011, including one ...