The ChromeOS team will use the Android Linux kernel and Android frameworks within ChromeOS. The process will allow AI advancements come to Chromebooks faster than if they were developed separately.

Described as the "engine behind the Android operating system (OS)," ART is responsible for the translation of an app's bytecode into native instructions that are executed by the device's runtime ...

ART is the engine that powers Android and is responsible for compiling Java and Kotlin into bytecode and executing it. Updates to ART have let Google improve the speed of apps, even without a full ...

With the latest ART 13 update, runtime and compiler optimizations resulted in app startup time “improvements of up to 30% on some devices.” Behind the scenes, “ART is the same for all ...

Here's what Meta's developers have learned from moving their code base from the Java programming language over to Kotlin. Written by Liam Tung, Contributing Writer Oct. 27, 2022 at 2:10 a.m. PT ...

A new development in Android 13 Beta 3, available today, has streamlined the process a bit: now, only supported apps are shown in the App Languages menu.

But in Android 13, this will extend to all icons. To make this work, developers will have to tweak their icons a little, so don't expect every single icon to be "themeable" right from the get go.

Google lays out the benefits of Rust over C/C++, saying, "Rust provides memory safety guarantees by using a combination of compile-time checks to enforce object lifetime/ownership and runtime ...

Google today announced that the Kotlin programming language is now its preferred language for Android app developers. “Android development will become increasingly Kotlin-first,” Google writes ...