When Google was developing Android, it decided to include 11,500 lines of computer code taken from the Java SE API, which Oracle now owns through its acquisition of Sun Microsystems.

Supreme Court has ruled in a 6-2 decision that Google’s use of Java in Android represents fair use and does not infringe on Oracle patents and copyrights.

The US Supreme Court has sided with Google in the search company's long-running legal fight with Oracle, declaring Android could use APIs from the Oracle-owned Java.

Constructing metaphors for Java’s API let justices interrogate whether the code was a basic tool that Google was using because it was the most efficient option, or whether it was a creative ...

Last year, Google open sourced the code for the robots.txt parser used in its production systems. After seeing the community build tools with it and add their own contributions to the open source ...

Google maintains that Android's 15 million lines of code only contain parts of Java that were freely available in the public domain.

In 2019, Google asked the Supreme Court to review Oracle’s long-running lawsuit over whether Android’s usage of Java was fair use. The Supreme Court this morning sided with Google and ...

Kotlin has also helped Google's Home app developers become more productive as it requires much less code compared to the equivalent of existing Java code.

Learn More Google today released security testing tool Firing Range, a Java application that contains a wide range of XSS and a few other web vulnerabilities.