If you're not a mobile developer working with Android, chances are you haven't heard of Kotlin. If you are an Android programmer, it's the best thing since sliced bread. While Java has long been ...

James Gosling, the father of Java, one of the world's most widely used programming languages, has talked with research scientist Lex Fridman about Java's origins and his motivations for creating a ...

The software developer kit will let programmers create Java software for real or emulated Android mobile phones. Plus: a $10 million contest for coders. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to ...

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 ...

Every programming language comes with a learning curve, but Java shares many similarities with C, C++ and JavaScript. Anyone with experience in any of those languages will pick up Java syntax quickly.

The Android mobile platform, originally based on a modified version of the Linux kernel, has created huge ripples in the mobile industry. After all, it is one of the most used mobile operating systems ...

Java 8 introduced Java developers to functional programming with lambda expressions. This Java release effectively notified developers that it’s no longer sufficient to think about Java programming ...

The first preview release of the Swift SDK for Android marks new territory in cross-platform development with Apple's ...

The Java programming language celebrates its silver anniversary this week, with May 23, 2020, marking 25 years from the day Sun Microsystems first introduced Java to the world. The venerable language ...

What do developers love most about Java? For many, it’s how it manages to be so reliable (think Toyota) while still able to handle everything from parallel graph analytics to bleeding-edge finance ...