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Android, Is it possible to run Dalvik VM on any kind of OSs in order to run Android Applications?

I have some operating systems such as Windows 7 and Linux. Is it possible to run Dalvik on this Win7 and after that running an Android application or game?

Thanks

Solution

  • Android's virtual machine is tightly integrated with the OS (Linux). So, it is impossible to run it on Windows.

    The lower-level components (OS and native libraries) in the Android system provide many services that Dalvik merely "translates" for the consumption of Java programs. So porting Dalvik to Windows is probably very hard and rather pointless.