Android Developers Backstage Episode 11 ART pART 2 Trash Talk

In this continuation of the previous gripping and suspenseful episode known as Episode 10, Tor and Chet hear more from Anwar Ghuloum from the Android Runtime team. This time is all trash-talk. Tune in to hear more about garbage collection and how allocation and collection performance is much faster with ART (and, more interestingly, why its faster).

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ARTicles:
Introducing ART: http://source.android.com/devices/tech/dalvik/art.html
Verifying App Behavior: http://developer.android.com/guide/practices/verifying-apps-art.html

Video:
The ART Runtime: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBlTzQsUoOw

Other Resources:
Systrace: http://developer.android.com/tools/help/systrace.html

Tor: google.com/+TorNorbye
Chet: google.com/+ChetHaase

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Updating the past tutorials to Android SDK 2 0

Hi Friends,

It has been a couple of weeks since Android SDK 2.0 has been released. Since I have got caught up in many other demanding projects, I have not been able to find any time to update my tutorials sample code uploaded so far to be compatible to 2.0.
It would be wonderful if, as and when you try my tutorials, you can update / post your comments on deprecated APIs or newer APIs that need to be used.

Thanks.

Hi, I have written a few steps about upgrading to SDK 2.1 at http://saigeethamn.blogspot.com/2010/03/basic-steps-for-upgrading-source-code.html

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