The Oracle v. Google trial draws sketchy image of Android’s Java use

In the back-and-forth that is Google versus Oracle, lawyers for both sides are doing their diligence early on, but Oracle’s team may be serving up damage Google can’t recover from. The lawsuit itself regards Android, which is widely used and written in Java, a language created by Sun Microsystems. When Oracle purchased Sun, it acquired Java as well as all its various APIs — which are copyrighted. To that, Oracle is claiming Google has no right to use Java APIs for Android, whi