1page.title=Dalvik Technical Information 2@jd:body 3 4<!-- 5 Copyright 2013 The Android Open Source Project 6 7 Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); 8 you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. 9 You may obtain a copy of the License at 10 11 http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 12 13 Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software 14 distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, 15 WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. 16 See the License for the specific language governing permissions and 17 limitations under the License. 18--> 19<p>Dalvik is the managed runtime used by applications and some system 20services on Android. Dalvik was originally created specifically for 21the Android project.</p> 22<p>Much of the documentation in this directory is intended to help 23with the ongoing development of Dalvik, as opposed to most of the 24other documentation on this site, which is geared more towards 25application development.</p> 26 27<p>Please note, in Android 4.4 a new virtual machine - ART - is being introduced 28experimentally that will eventually replace Dalvik. Please see <a 29href="{@docRoot}devices/tech/dalvik/art.html">Introducing ART</a> for details. 30