Android's Achilles heel, aside from the "toxic hellstew" of security patches and fragmentation -- which is outside the scope of this article and my Survival Test series -- is Java.

If you own an Apple device, you can't run Java—at least not as Java, although there is a project to port Java code to Objective C but that's another story. If you own a Windows-based or Android ...

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.

Smart mobile devices---the very things the Java overlords had envisioned 15 years earlier---were actually starting to become a thing. And Java was running on many of them.

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 ...