Android Authority

How to use for loops in Java

For loops in Java are just one type of loop that can be used to repeat a code block for iterative operations. If you need to open a text file for example, then you might use a loop to go through each ...
Android Authority

How to write your first Android game in Java

There are plenty of ways to create a game for Android and one important way is to do it from scratch in Android Studio with Java. This gives you the maximum control over how you want your game to look ...
AppleInsider

Android docs reveal before iPhone, Google's plan was a Java button phone

Before and after versions of Google's internal "software functional requirements" documents released in the Apple vs Samsung trial this week show that prior to Apple's 2007 iPhone debut, Google's ...
ZDNet

Programming languages: Why Meta is moving its Android apps from Java to Kotlin

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 ...
VentureBeat

Google confirms next Android version will use Oracle’s open-source OpenJDK for Java APIs

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 first ...
CNET

Former Sun CEO says Google's Android didn't need license for Java APIs

SAN FRANCISCO -- Former Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz took the stand here today as a witness for the defense, and disputed Oracle's claim that Java APIs were proprietary code from Sun. Google's lawyer, ...
ZDNet

The real history of Java and Android, as told by Google

My ZDNet colleague Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols is eager to step up to Google’s defense in the company’s legal battle with Oracle. To that end, he has written “A Google Android and Java history lesson” ...