The ongoing legal battle between Google and Oracle is complicated. But Oracle has a strong case. Don't just take my word for it. Here's what Google's own lawyers have to say. My ZDNet colleague Steven ...

A new ruling in a court of appeals reverses a 2016 ruling that Google doesn’t owe any money to Oracle for the use of Java code in Android. This case has been going on for nearly a decade, and could ...

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 “official” languages that Google supports for Android development — the other being Kotlin. While the latter is increasingly favored by Google however, Java remains popular due to ...

Here's what Meta's developers have learned from moving their code base from the Java programming language over to Kotlin. Engineers at Facebook parent Meta have detailed their multi-year effort to ...

“A dispute erupting over the legitimacy of claims may have been settled on Friday with a study,” Electronista reports. “Following assertions that the files were just for testing and in some cases had ...

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 ...

In a case with broad implications for copyright law, Alphabet Inc.’s Google LLC is not liable for copyright infringement in the company’s use of Java code in how it was used in the Android operating ...

Type to search articles, cases, and authors. Press ↵ to view all results. The justices finished up the first week of the new term by finally hearing argument in Google v. Oracle, a case that has been ...

Just last month, we saw the first baby steps toward the adoption of the memory-managed Rust programming language into the Linux kernel. Google has apparently been thinking along the same lines, and in ...

You've probably seen or installed modified applications, be it a patched dialer for your resolution or a custom WhatsApp version with added features. How do ...