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Old 05-05-2018, 05:03 AM   #229
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Originally Posted by DNSB View Post
Not really. The kernel is not all that different though diffing the kernel sources shows quite a few changes but older Android releases used Dalvik to run applications (see Oracle vs. Google for more about Dalvik: is it an illegal clone of Java) while newer Android releases use ART (Android RunTime) -- I seem to remember the changeover happened around Android 5 Lollipop but I'm not going to bother to check my memory on that.
Dalvik is not any illegal clone of Java, in fact, Dalvik is a virtual machine like java virtual machine and the only things regarding Dalvik in the trial were some patent infrigements accusations that were dismissed
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