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tobiaswk on Jan 8, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: RemixOS – Android for the desktop

Java? What are you talking about?

Android used to use it own process-based virtual machine; Dalvik. This is not the case anymore. Now Android Runtime (ART) is used. Applications are compiled to native machine code upon installation. There is no virtual machine.

arthurfm on Jan 8, 2016 [–]

> Applications are compiled to native machine code upon installation

What about apps created with the NDK?

tobiaswk on Jan 8, 2016 | [–]

Basically the same result. NDK uses a customized cross-compiler built on the arm-eabi-gcc compiler.

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