Throughout the rapid and tumultuous history of Android, which is now five years old, almost every aspect of the OS has been changed, updated, or overhauled in some way. Everything, that is, except for ...

You know what the best way is to run Android apps on your phone? Buy a phone running the Google Android operating system. But pretty soon it might not be the only way. A company called Myriad has ...

The next major version of Android, which will probably be unveiled at Google I/O next week, will remove the Dalvik runtime and replace it with ART -- the new Android Runtime. The main purpose of ART ...

SUNNYVALE, Calif., May 9, 2011 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- MIPS Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq:MIPS), a leading provider of industry-standard processor architectures and cores for digital home, networking and ...

Mobile software maker Myriad plans to launch software that lets non-Android-based smartphones run apps designed for Google's mobile operating system. The software, known as Alien Dalvik, will allow ...

Android might have the edge on iOS when it comes to sheer market share now, but Google's platform remains in the shadow of its great rival in terms of the size of its app marketplace. Android Market, ...

One of the new “features” in Android 4.4 – KitKat is the new runtime, which is ART. Which stands for Android Runtime. Previously, Android was using Dalvik from the beginning. So this is a pretty big ...

One of the key components of Google’s Android operating system is the Dalvik virtual machine which is required to run Android applications. But now there’s a new open source project called In-The-Box ...

Mobile technology company Myriad has updated its Dalvik virtual machine for Android with Dalvik Turbo, which it says offers three times the performance for the same memory requirements. Substantial ...