Google has-yet to release its next-gen Android OS version, but it looks like one major feature of the new operating system has been confirmed. Xda-developers has discovered that commits made to the AOSP master branch on Wednesday night show that Dalvik will be replaced with ART as default. None of that will make sense to many readers, but more experienced Android fans already know what Dalvik and ART are, and why it’s good news that Android will replace the former with the latter. Dalvik and ART are the old and new runtimes that execute app instructions inside Android. While Dalvik is a Just-in-Time (JIT) compiler that executes code only when it’s needed, ART – which was introduced in Android 4.4



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