Java may still be the first programming language that springs to mind when you think about Android, but you don’t have to use Java for Android development. In fact, Kotlin is now Google’s ...

Once the jump is made to Android 6.0 Marshmallow things start to improve dramatically, with 64-bit Android 6.0 yielding the smallest difference between Java and C.

Here's what Meta's developers have learned from moving their code base from the Java programming language over to Kotlin.

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 ...