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 ...
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 ...
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 ...