Thread: Could Maemo/MeeGo ever be compatible with Android apps and vice-versa?
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wmarone is offline wmarone
2010-04-29 , 18:10
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#11
Originally Posted by tso View Post
on the topic of java, ARM cores have had a java accelerator for ages, thanks to j2me being "popular" on featurephones (with opera mini being the best known example).
They do, and the chip in the N900 includes it, IIRC. However, the output of the Android compiler targets Dalvik, which isn't compatible with the standard Java runtimes or most hardware Java accelleration.