Engineers at Facebook parent Meta have detailed their multi-year effort to convert the codebases for its numerous Android apps from the Java programming language over to Kotlin. That's a large task ...

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 “pragmatic” ...

Java is one of the most in-demand programming languages in the world and one of the two official programming languages used in Android development (the other being Kotlin). Developers familiar with ...

Java is the official programming language of Android and it is the basis for many components of the OS itself, plus it is found at the core of Android’s SDK. Java ...

Oracle has made Java 16, also known as Oracle Java Development Kit 16, generally available, including 17 new enhancements to the platform aimed at further improving developer productivity. This latest ...

2024 Java Developer Productivity Report finds most companies plan to add Java developers this year, though most tool budgets not rising. Most respondents to a recent survey on Java productivity said ...