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Android CPU portability?

Started Mar 2, 2014 | Questions thread
danijel973
danijel973 Contributing Member • Posts: 868
Re: Android CPU portability?

CAcreeks wrote:

danijel973 wrote:

That's not a problem with Android, because the applications are downloaded as Java and then compiled to Dalvik executable (a virtual machine), so the code never actually runs on the CPU, it runs on Dalvik. So essentially what you need is Android compiled for your CPU, and if you have that, the apps are not a problem.

Thanks. I thought Dalvik is a fishing village in Iceland!

It is. The developer who wrote the virtual machine called it after the village of his ancestors.

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