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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 ...
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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 ...
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Apple and Google make a Swift move closer, letting developers build Android apps with ease

Apple has announced the first preview release of the Swift SDK for Android. The SDK now allows developers to build Android apps using Apple's Swift programming language.
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Programming languages: How Google is using Rust to reduce memory safety vulnerabilities in Android

Google's decision to use Rust for new code in Android in order to reduce memory-related flaws appears to be paying off. Memory safety vulnerabilities in Android have been more than halved – a ...