MacTech

Apple’s Swift programming language is being extended to support Android app development

I didn’t see this coming, but Apple’s Swift programming language is now being officially extended to support Android app development. This is done via an establishment of a dedicated Android Working ...
ZDNet

Programming languages: Why Meta is moving its Android apps from Java to Kotlin

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 ...

Inside Google's AI plan to end Android developer toil - and speed up innovation

Inside Google's AI plan to end Android developer toil - and speed up innovation ...

Android 17 Beta 1 is around the corner, will skip the traditional Developer Preview stage

Android 17 Beta 1 is officially on the way, and Google is changing up its usual release playbook in the process. The post Android 17 Beta 1 is around the corner, will skip the traditional Developer ...
VentureBeat

Google confirms next Android version will use Oracle's open-source OpenJDK for Java APIs

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 ...
InfoWorld

Swift SDK arrives for Android development

The Swift Android workgroup has announced nightly preview releases of the Swift SDK for Android, a tool kit for developing Android mobile applications with Apple’s Swift language. Instructions for ...