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by keeperofdakeys 5184 days ago
Google Play supports this, which is mainly used for tablet vs phone, but could be used for different ARM architectures.. http://developer.android.com/guide/market/publishing/multipl...
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I thought all Android apps ran in a Dalvik VM. What do you mean by "could be used for different ARM architectures"? Isn't Java bytecode independent of the underlying architecture?
The Android Native Development Kit allows you to write normal C code and compile it for ARM devices.
There's an increasing number of MIPS based Android devices out these days, so hopefully they can handle that too...
Good point, though I'd say different architectures rather than different ARM architectures, now that we have Android/x86 in the wild, too.