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 ...

Drag and drop your way to Android programming. MIT App Inventor, re-released as a beta service (as of March 5, 2012) by the MIT Center for Mobile Learning after taking over the project from Google, is ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Android-maker Google is injecting cash to further its mission to attract more developers who can build apps for the world's most popular operating system. The advertising and tech giant has announced ...

Google today announced that it is making Kotlin, a statically typed programming language for the Java Virtual Machine, a first-class language for writing Android apps. Kotlin’s primary sponsor is ...

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” ...

This tutorial is an introduction to socket programming in Java, starting with a simple client-server example demonstrating the basic features of Java I/O. You’ll be introduced to both the original ...