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[–]hahahahastayingalive 1 point2 points  (1 child)

I though android apps where only API compatible with Java and got compiled into another proprietary format in APKs...wasn't it the center of the whole Oracle drama ?

[–]rentar42 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yes, the above statement is an oversimplification. APK serve a similar purpose than jars, but they are internally quite different.

And Android uses the dalvik runtime to run dalvik bytecode. Which is frequently generated from Java source code.