What just happened? The latest Google Play system update for the Android Runtime (ART) brings a number of critical improvements, including much faster app launches. Described as the "engine behind the ...

Google’s latest blog post is all about extolling the virtues of ART, the Android runtime, and its new ability to be updated independently of the OS. ART is the engine that powers Android and is ...

In a recent blog post, Google unwrapped some exciting achievements of the Android Runtime (ART) compiler. It detailed every bit of the ART journey, and how it improved the Android performance since ...

Engineers at Facebook parent Meta have detailed their multi-year effort to convert the codebases for its numerous Android apps from the Java programming language over to Kotlin. That's a large task ...

If you begin to see a deluge of pure Android apps suddenly appear in the Chrome Web Store for Chromebooks, there’s a reason: Google has gone mainstream with App Runtime for Chrome (ARC), the company’s ...