Take your pick. If you want to develop Android apps, step one is picking a language. The differences between the various Android programming languages can be a little complex and nuanced.

Memory safety vulnerabilities in Android have been more than halved – a milestone that coincides with Google's switch from C and C++ to the memory-safe programming language, Rust.

Swift, the programming language used to create apps for the iPhone, iPad, Mac, and other Apple platforms, could be used to ...

Smartphones are arguably the most popular computers, yet Kotlin (Android), Dart (Android/iOS), and Swift (any Apple product) are some of the least popular languages.

Swift is not likely to replace Kotlin or Java on Android in the near future, but some developers may find it useful for cross-platform projects.

Most developers who use the Google-backed Go programming language still love using it, but lament the missing features and choice of libraries available with Python. The Go team surveyed 11,840 ...