Google have placed a sneaky enablement of ART into Kit Kat, if you dont know what ART is, its the replacement for the ageing run-time in Android, which promises to be faster in running your apps, and being lighter on your battery.
ART, which is short for Android Runtime, aims to replace Dalvik (which has been around since Gingerbread) and will change the way your Android- handsets executes apps, to explain.....
"Dalvik" is the compiler responsible for running apps on Android. Its runtime uses the Just-In-Time compiler to interpret bycode, which is in part a version of the original application code. ART uses the AOT process (Ahead-Of-Time) and basically pre-compiling the bycode into machine code (which runs real fast) the moment an app is installed, making them in essence native apps.
However this has been in development for two years and would have thought that Google would have been keen to get this out into full production by now.
Anyway its worth checking it out, you can do this by heading to your development options in your Kit Kat device by going to Settings > Developer options > Select runtime.
Please note this may render some apps useless or buggy, use at you own risk.
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