What is Dalvik? by Mark Murphy
Sep 16, 2010, 16:04 (0 Talkback[s])
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"I asked an Android guy to explain some things to me about
Dalvik, so I could understand the Oracle v. Google situation in
more depth.
"I'm not a programmer, I told him, but I need to understand the
tech behind the lawsuit, so I can understand when the lawyers start
arguing about what Google did and didn't do and whether it was
entitled to do it or not. What is Dalvik? Why use it? So I asked
Mark Murphy, the founder of CommonsWare, and who is the author of
three books on Android application development, including Busy
Coder's Guide to Android Development, to explain it. He also trains
folks in developing for Android. Also, he doesn't work for Google,
so he can speak more freely. Once you are in litigation, most
companies are silent as the grave until it's decided. Don't go by
SCO. That big-mouth grandstanding to the media was not typical.
"If, like me, you never paid much attention before to all the
intricacies of Java, it's a chance to get up to speed on all that,
as the article walks us through different ways the word Java is
used, sometimes a bit loosely, as well as explaining what Dalvik
does and the benefits it offers."
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