Want ART on your Android 4.4 powered Nexus 5,4, 7 and 10? Here's how

You might recall that back in November, we told you how Android 4.4 features Android RunTime on an experimental basis. The runtime environment is actually disabled on Android 4.4 as the Dalvik VM continues to use its "just-in-time" process for compiling the bytecode of an app. Dalvik won't compile the bytecode until you open an app. With ART, the bytecode is compiled when you install the app. This head start allows ART to run an app twice as fast as Dalvik while using half the resources of the processor.



If you own the Nexus 5, Nexus 4, Nexus 7 or Nexus 10, and they are powered by Android ...