1 <!-- 2 Copyright 2011 The Android Open Source Project 3 4 Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); 5 you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. 6 You may obtain a copy of the License at 7 8 http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 9 10 Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software 11 distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, 12 WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. 13 See the License for the specific language governing permissions and 14 limitations under the License. 15 --> 16 17 # Dalvik Technical Information # 18 19 Dalvik is the managed runtime used by applications and some system 20 services on Android. Dalvik was originally created specifically for 21 the Android project. 22 23 Much of the documentation in this directory is intended to help 24 with the ongoing development of Dalvik, as opposed to most of the 25 other documentation on this site, which is geared more towards 26 application development. 27