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 ...

One to note. There’s a very interesting article on AndroidPolice.com that looks at a new Google alternative to the Dalvik virtual machine, its called ART (as in Android runtime). Dalvik is the runtime ...