Answer (1 of 4): ART (Android RunTime) is the next version of Dalvik. Dalvik is the runtime, bytecode, and VM used by the Android system for running Android applications. ART has two main features compared to Dalvik: * Ahead-of-Time (AOT) compilation, which improves speed (particularly startup ...
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