Inside DVM

DVM and *.dex file

Nick Bova@mykola_bova

Nov 14 2013

What is this?

Android build process

Dalvik opcodes

http://pallergabor.uw.hu/androidblog/dalvik_opcodes.html

http://www.milk.com/kodebase/dalvik-docs-mirror/docs/dalvik-bytecode.html

Dex File Format

http://www.retrodev.com/android/dexformat.html

http://source.android.com/devices/tech/dalvik/dex-format.html

Dalvik is register based

Dalvik is register based

Dalvik is register based

Map Java bytecode to Dalvik bytecode

Jar and Apk files