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What is Dalvik Virtual Machine?

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What is Dalvik Virtual Machine?
posted Apr 17, 2017 by Karthick.c

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Every Android application runs in its own process, with its own instance of the Dalvik virtual machine. Dalvik has been written so that a device can run multiple VMs efficiently. The Dalvik VM executes files in the Dalvik Executable (.dex) format which is optimised for minimal memory footprint.

answer May 26, 2017 by Shyam
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