"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.

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 ...

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 ...