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Enabling Android Runtime in AOSP 4.4 branch

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Does anyone know how I can enable ART in AOSP 4.4? I complete a successful build and load it onto a Nexus 4 (mako). Everything seems to work fine, however, when I go to the settings and change the default runtime to ART, it reboots and never comes back up. When looking through the logs (adb logcat), I see a bunch of segmentation faults coming from libart.so. Is ART supported in AOSP?

Please note that when I take the official image from here: https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/images I am able to enable ART so my theory is that it is not yet enabled in AOSP.

posted Nov 26, 2013 by Amit Parthsarthi

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