Wondering what the lawyers and programmers are talking about in the highest-profile tech trial in years? Here's a guide to the ties between Android and Java -- and the history leading up to the case.

In a tersely worded press release, Oracle announced that it was suing Google for patent and copyright infringement over its use of the Java programming language for Android development. Neither the ...

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, ...

As a Linux Journal reader, you've probably stumbled across Google Android here and there. You've probably read an introductory article or maybe you even downloaded an ...

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 ...

Java is the official programming language of Android and it is the basis for many components of the OS itself, plus it is found at the core of Android’s SDK. Java has a couple of interesting ...

Keeping up with the latest developer android com tools releases platform-tools can feel like a full-time job. New versions of Android Studio and the SDK tools drop regularly, each bringing changes ...

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” ...