For more on that, check out our guide to Android development for beginners. For the purposes of this Java tutorial, it may be easier to write your code directly into a Java compiler app.

For decades, Java has been the enterprise world's go-to programming language—the reliable, if somewhat verbose, workhorse powering everything from banking systems to e-commerce platforms. But when the ...

The JDK is the development platform for building Java applications. Learn about different JDK versions, then install a JDK in your development environment and use it to compile a Java program.