Google’s Android software ‘stack’ for mobile devices appears to be underpinned by a more substantially game-changing technology than at first thought in the form of the Google Dalvik virtual machine.

Currently, Android apps run in something called the Dalvik. Dalvik is a process virtual machine, and you can read up on it here. It’s basically how Android apps run on our phones. It allows the same ...

Google and Oracle have been tied up in a fight for a while over how Java works in the Android operating system. In 2012, Oracle specifically targeted the Dalvik virtual machine that runs on Android ...