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The standard GUI toolkit for Java SE at the time was Swing. That would never have been appropriate for mobile, but they'd have had to support it anyway. Also th
by thu2111 6y ago
The standard GUI toolkit for Java SE at the time was Swing. That would never have been appropriate for mobile, but they'd have had to support it anyway. Also the Android team believed that HotSpot wouldn't work on heavily RAM constrained phones, hence Dalvik. Were they wrong? Doubt it.
- pjmlp 6y agoHotSpot wasn't the only game in town for embedded, and Dalvik was much worse than what Nokia and Sony-Ericson had on their own (not HotSpot based) implementations. So much that they eventually rebooted the whole thing with ART. Apparently Swing was appropriate for SavaJE, go figure.