Currently, Android apps run in something called the Dalvik. Dalvik is a process virtual machine, and you can read up on it here. It’s basically how Android apps run on our phones. It allows the same ...

Google’s Android software ‘stack’ for mobile devices appears to be underpinned by a more substantially game-changing technology than at first thought in the form of the Google Dalvik virtual machine.

Two more Google engineers took the stand in the Oracle v. Google trial today, offering detailed testimony about how Android's Dalvik "virtual machine" works, while a parallel battle over what to do ...

Google and Oracle have been tied up in a fight for a while over how Java works in the Android operating system. In 2012, Oracle specifically targeted the Dalvik virtual machine that runs on Android ...

Which is a very round about way of saying ‘find out about things that sound important but about which I have no clue’! First up is the “Dalvik virtual machine”, the open-source software originally ...

Recently, some people were shocked-shocked I tell you-to discover that Google had looked at Java to help create Android's Dalvik and that Google kept its Android source code to itself and its closest ...

Since Android is an open source operating system, it isn’t impossible to make other operating systems compatible with applications developed for it, and Myriad has done just that. In fact even on ...

With Android 5.0 Lollipop now winging its way to phones, Google has quietly made changes to Android’s compiler tools as well. New for developers is a pair of compilers, code-named Jack and Jill, ...

Which is a very round about way of saying ‘find out about things that sound important but about which I have no clue’! First up is the “Dalvik virtual machine”, the open-source software originally ...