Android Runtime

ART
Developer(s)Google
Repositoryandroid.googlesource.com/platform/art/
Written inC, C++
Operating systemAndroid
Included withAndroid
PredecessorDalvik
TypeRuntime environment
LicenseApache License 2.0[1]
Websitesource.android.com/docs/core/runtime Edit this on Wikidata

Android Runtime (ART) is an application runtime environment used by the Android operating system. Replacing Dalvik, the process virtual machine originally used by Android, ART performs the translation of the application's bytecode into native instructions that are later executed by the device's runtime environment.[2]

  1. ^ "NOTICE - platform/art - Git at Google". Archived from the original on March 4, 2023. Retrieved June 25, 2021.
  2. ^ Andrei Frumusanu (July 1, 2014). "A Closer Look at Android RunTime (ART) in Android L". AnandTech. Archived from the original on July 5, 2014. Retrieved July 5, 2014.