Over the last several weeks, as part of my Smartphone Survival Test as a dyed-in-the-wool iPhone and iOS user, I've been immersing myself in the world of Android -- specifically, low-cost Android ...

Google's latest blog post is all about extolling the virtues of ART, the Android runtime, and its new ability to be updated independently of the OS. ART is the engine that powers Android and is ...

Engineers at Facebook parent Meta have detailed their multi-year effort to convert the codebases for its numerous Android apps from the Java programming language over to Kotlin. That's a large task ...

Google has announced an update to Android Runtime (ART) that aims to boost app launch speed by 30%. The update, known as ART 14, also brings improvements in memory usage, bytecode compilation, and ...

Google’s planned Android L release, revealed Wednesday at the Google I/O Conference, will give developers a smorgasbord of new capabilities to work with, including a faster runtime and enhancements ...

The next major version of Android, which will probably be unveiled at Google I/O next week, will remove the Dalvik runtime and replace it with ART -- the new Android Runtime. The main purpose of ART ...

We’ve long suspected that Google’s upcoming operating system, Fuchsia, would join the ranks of Chrome OS (and Android) in its support for Android apps. Today, that suspicion has been confirmed by a ...