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Dalvik Last modified: Thursday, August 21, 2008
A virtual machine optimized for mobile devices that was designed and written by Dan Bornstein and other Google engineers. Dalvik is a part of the software stack that makes up the Android platform. According to Google's Android documentation, the Dalvik VM is an interpreter-only virtual machine that executes files in the Dalvik Executable (.dex) format, a format that is optimized for efficient storage and memory-mappable execution. The virtual machine is register-based, and it can run classes compiled by a Java language compiler that have been transformed into its native format.
Android - An Open Handset Alliance Project Android allows you to access core mobile device functionality through standard API calls. Android Debug Bridge Android Debug Bridge (adb) is a versatile tool that lets you manage the state of a device or emulator. Android SDK Developers can create applications for the platform using the Android SDK. Applications are written using the Java programming language and run on Dalvik, a custom virtual machine designed for embedded use which runs on top of a Linux kernel. Dalvik Debug Monitor Server Android ships with a debugging tool called the Dalvik Debug Monitor Service (DDMS), which provides port-forwarding services, screen capture on the device, thread and heap information on the device, logcat, process, and radio state information, and more features. Dalvik: How Google routed around Sun.s IP-based licensing restrictions on Java ME Dalvik is a virtual machine, just like Java's or .NET.s, but it's Google's own and they're making it open source without having to ask permission to anyone.	Related Categories Mobile Phones Software Related Terms Android platform Android SDK Java mobile OS mobile phone