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By John K. Waters
Software development toolmaker JetBrains, maker of the code-centric Java IDE, IntelliJ IDEA, and creator of Kotlin, has announced the beta of its Compose Multiplatform declarative UI framework.
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By John K. Waters
Embedded and IoT solutions provider MicroEJ releases its MICROEJ Kifaru JavaScript framework for embedded development to open source.
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By John K. Waters
Announcement are rolling out of this year's Google I/O virtual event about a range of tools and solutions, about which every Android developer should know.
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By John K. Waters
At the annual Google I/O conference, virtual again this year, Google announced the beta release of Android Studio IDE 'Arctic Fox' with a new integration with Google's native UI toolkit, Jetpack Compose.
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By John K. Waters
The decade-long battle between Google and Oracle over software copyright and fair use came to an end last week with the Supreme Court finding for Google. Two industry experts comment on the legal and ethical issues in the case and the potential consequences of the decision.
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By John K. Waters
SCOTUS rules that Google did not commit copyright infringement when it used 37 Java APIs in its Android OS without Oracle's permission.
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By John K. Waters
The team behind Google's Flutter cross-platform UI toolkit for building natively compiled applications for mobile, web, and the desktop from a single codebase announced the alpha release of Flutter for Windows.
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Cloud giant Amazon Web Services extended its Amplify family of cloud tools/services for developing mobile apps with new iOS- and Android-specific libraries.
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By John K. Waters
It's now available for download, just a week ahead of the release of Java 14 on March 17.
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Google announced an early developer-only preview of Android 11, inviting coders to put the next edition of its flagship mobile OS through its paces on Pixel 2, 3, 3a, or 4 devices.
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By John K. Waters
"Google has a problem," Oracle stated in its filing. "It committed an egregious act of plagiarism and now needs to rewrite copyright law to justify it. It cannot."
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The latest release of Javalin, the lightweight Web framework for Kotlin and Java, is a minor, mostly bug-fix release, but the steady evolution and growing popularity of this open-source project are a kind of validation of this type minimalist framework.
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By John K. Waters
Software development toolmaker JetBrains has released a major update of its flagship code-centric Java IDE, IntelliJ IDEA.
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By John K. Waters
Qualcomm Technologies unveiled two new 5G mobile phone processors this week: the Snapdragon 865 for high-end Android phones, such as Samsung's Galaxy and Google's Pixel, and the slightly slower and less expensive Snapdragon 765.
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By John K. Waters
The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) has agreed to decide whether Google should have to pay Oracle billions of dollars for infringing on its copyright of 37 Java APIs Google used in its Android operating system.
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By John K. Waters
Google says the Supreme Court should ignore the recent recommendation of the Solicitor General of the United States, which advised the court to refuse to review a 2016 appeals court's rulings that Google infringed on Oracle's copyrights to Java code in its Android mobile operating system.