Java is a great language for game programming, as I hope my book demonstrates." "Killer Game Programming in Java" is a guide to everything you need to know to program bad-ass Java games.

Google I/O: Kotlin, a popular new language for mobile platforms that's compatible with Java, is now officially supported on Android.

There's more than one way to make an Android game! In this post, I take a look at creating 2D sprite-based games with Java and Android Studio.

Are the days of Java’s rule over Android apps coming to an end? Google announced official support for the Kotlin programming language in May 2017 at its annual I/O developer conference. The ...

Kotlin offers big advantages over Java for JVM and Android development, and plays nicely with Java in the same projects.

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 ...

At its I/O 2017 developers conference today, Google announced Android is gaining official support for the Kotlin programming language, in addition to Java and C++. The news received the biggest ...

Minecraft is perhaps the most prominent Java video game on the market today. Its popularity attracts players from around the world, but also opens the door to the Java programming language, and could ...

Android's existential crisis: Why Java needs to die on mobile devices Web-based standards and native code are the future of application development on mobile devices.

Google releases Android programming tools The software developer kit will let programmers create Java software for real or emulated Android mobile phones. Plus: a $10 million contest for coders.