Java is the official language of Android, but you can also write apps in C or C++ using the NDK. But which language is faster on Android? Java vs C app performance - Gary explains - Android Authority ...

Mobile developer William J. Francis demonstrates how easy it is to consume a RESTful service from your Android device. RESTful services are well suited for providing content to small footprint ...

Telephony manager, which is part of the Android application framework, provides a telephony API to user applications. It consists of the android.telephony and android.telephony.gsm Java packages. This ...

Learn how to use a web API from within an Android app using Retrofit. ... This is a free REST API specifically for testing and prototyping, ... Converting JSON to Java object.

While SOAP-based web services form the backbone of most legacy web service implementations, RESTful APIs have become the de facto standard for cloud-native microservices development. In this ...

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 ...

Gradle, the build system of choice for Android mobile development, has been upgraded with better support for building Java applications. Gradle 3.4 offers fast incremental results and “the end ...

The Supreme Court has sided with Google in the long-running Java API copyright case known as Oracle v. Google, finding that Google is legally entitled to use elements of Java APIs in its Android code.