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Re:RemixOS – Android for the desktop by tobiaswk on Friday January 08, 2016 @04:00AM (#10863742)
Java? What are you talking about?

Android used to use it own process-based virtual machine; Dalvik. This is not the case anymore. Now Android Runtime (ART) is used. Applications are compiled to native machine code upon installation. There is no virtual machine.

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Re:RemixOS – Android for the desktop by arthurfm on Friday January 08, 2016 @07:41AM (#10864434)
> Applications are compiled to native machine code upon installation

What about apps created with the NDK?

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Re:RemixOS – Android for the desktop by tobiaswk on Friday January 08, 2016 @09:04AM (#10864853)
Basically the same result. NDK uses a customized cross-compiler built on the arm-eabi-gcc compiler.
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