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.

Myriad, Europe’s largest mobile software company, aims to radically transform Android and the way applications run on the OS. Today it announces Dalvik Turbo, a virtual machine that replaces the ...

The second phase of the Oracle v. Google trial got into full swing today, following yesterday’s verdict, which left Oracle with a partial and inconclusive victory over Google. The subject matter has ...

Android apps running on your iPad? Alien Dalvik makes it possible. In case you’re not familiar with Alien Dalvik, it is a port of the Dalvik virtual machine, which is the software in Google’s Android ...

We may earn a commission when you click links to retailers and purchase goods. More info. It’s (almost) official: Google will eschew the Dalvik virtual machine for ART in the next release of Android.

A huge advantage that devices powered by the Android operating system have over virtually every other OS is the use of a virtual machine in which apps run. Yes, virtual machines, but we’ll get to ...

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 ...

Throughout the rapid and tumultuous history of Android, which is now five years old, almost every aspect of the OS has been changed, updated, or overhauled in some way. Everything, that is, except for ...

Mobile technology company Myriad has updated its Dalvik virtual machine for Android with Dalvik Turbo, which it says offers three times the performance for the same memory requirements. Substantial ...

With the new Android OS 2.2 release gaining plenty of kudos from Nexus One owners, Google has been unpicking some of the low level smarts that make it so much faster. One key component is the Dalvik ...

Throughout the rapid and tumultuous history of Android, which is now five years old, almost every aspect of the OS has been changed, updated, or overhauled in some way. Everything, that is, except for ...

A federal jury has found that Google did not infringe on Oracle patents in building its Android mobile operating system. As part of its lawsuit against Google, Oracle had argued that in creating the ...