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Dex File Format

November 14th, 2007 by Head Robot

Very important information for Android Developer’s:

If you’ve been paying attention to the tech news lately you might have heard about a little something called Android from Google. Android is a new mobile phone platform based on Linux and Java, but unlike other Java platforms Android uses a non-standard JVM called Dalvik. While Google has promised to release much (all?) of Android under an open source license, they haven’t done so yet and they also haven’t released any documentation on this new VM. Being somewhat impatient, I’ve taken it upon myself to do some reverse engineering and put together some documentation of my own. This page documents the Dex file format that compiled programs get translated into for use on the Dalvik VM. I hope to write some documentation on the VM itself in the near future.

Dalvik VM Dex File Format

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