Meet ART: The New Super-Fast Android Runtime Google Has Been Working On In Secret For Over 2 Years

It’s fair to say that Android went through some chaotic years in the beginning. The pace of development was frantic as the operating system grew at an unprecedented rate.

An as-yet undetermined future led to decisions that were made to conform to existing hardware and architectures, the available development tools, and the basic need to ship working code on tight deadlines.