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Munkeymon
Aug 14, 2003

Motherfucker's got an
armor-piercing crowbar! Rigoddamndicu𝜆ous.



Doctor w-rw-rw- posted:

The chances are virtually zero regardless. Android implements against a subset of 6 since that's the last freely available release of Java. Building against a newer version of Java seems at this point to be impossible without a huge reconciliation and subsequent licensing deal with Oracle.

Far more likely is some sort of switch to LLVM and something on top of that, IMO, though I find it hard to believe that Dalvik won't continue to be supported indefinitely.

It's obviously not impossible to compile other languages to Dalvik, so why couldn't they transition to a different official language? Granted, I'm not sure what that would be* and I didn't realize newer Java versions had to be licensed now. Wonder what that does to OS Java (or JVM-dependant) projects.

*it would be hilarious to watch the corporate tears flow if Google bought xamarin and stated giving that toolchain away. E; Not that they ever would, but still

Munkeymon fucked around with this message at 22:02 on Oct 16, 2012

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Munkeymon
Aug 14, 2003

Motherfucker's got an
armor-piercing crowbar! Rigoddamndicu𝜆ous.



You can also connect the device to your development machine and run adb install <filename>.apk. Assuming you have the device set up for that, of course - see Geekner's post.

http://developer.android.com/tools/help/adb.html

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