Android replaces Dalvik with ART

2013-11-07 Thread Tobias Bley
Hi, after we reached the goal to use JavaFX on Android via Dalvik, Google announces the successor of Dalvik, called ART (Android Runtime). The start to move because of the legal issues with Java and Oracle…. http://source.android.com/devices/tech/dalvik/art.html The question is now: How to

Re: Android replaces Dalvik with ART

2013-11-07 Thread Stefan Fuchs
Hi, well if I understand it correctly, ART is just an Ahead of Time compiler like robovm. Therefore we can only hope, that they open-source it, so that we can use it on iOS :). See the German article on heise:

Re: Android replaces Dalvik with ART

2013-11-07 Thread Stephen F Northover
This is what .NET does. There was never an interpreter for any managed code. Steve On 2013-11-07 2:54 PM, Stefan Fuchs wrote: Hi, well if I understand it correctly, ART is just an Ahead of Time compiler like robovm. Therefore we can only hope, that they open-source it, so that we can use

Re: Android replaces Dalvik with ART

2013-11-07 Thread Richard Bair
I *really* doubt this has anything to do with the legal battle, it is much more likely to be the fact that Dalvik is painfully slow. Using an AOT compiler is not actually changing anything with regards to the fact that their development language is Java with a non-TCK compliant set of class