[randallu]

I thought Dalvik was quiet because the principal author (Dan Bornstein) left Google a while ago.

Is ART from the recent FlexyCore acquisition, or something else that has been going on for a while?

[BitMastro]

The commit history suggests that it started more than 2 years ago

[yohui]

While Google's acquisition of Flexycore was only made public recently, the process must have started years ago. As Ars Technica noted,

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/10/google-buys-flexycore...

> FlexyCore doesn't seem to have done anything on the Internet for the last two years. The company actively promoted its product, releasing 11 videos in a one-year span, and then just stopped. The lack of recent activity makes it unclear if Flexycore has continued development outside the public eye.

[Ologn]

One unfortunate thing about Bornstein leaving is he seemed to be the only one working on fixing the 65536 method limit bug/feature for Dalvik executables.

[mateor]

Tell me about it. All we get is simply spinning methods into separate jars every six months or so. Not a solution, IMO.