Last Wednesday’s post was about Oracle’s choice (or failure to make one) about which of the various IDEs it’s created/inherited to support. It’s an important issue, but one largely of interest to the ...

Heads up, programmers: Google opted to create its own Java standards and technology for its Android mobile phone, not piggyback on the existing Java Community Process. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET ...

The Microsoft Open Technologies group previewed the MS Open Tech Tools Plugin for Microsoft Services, an initial preview of a new plugin for JetBrains' IntelliJ IDEA Java IDE and Android Studio IDE.

Engineers at Facebook parent Meta have detailed their multi-year effort to convert the codebases for its numerous Android apps from the Java programming language over to Kotlin. That's a large task ...