Parallels? > I had the WordPerfect engineer on the phone. He had given me access to the WordPerfect source code, but I couldn’t give him access to the Windows

Parallels? > I had the WordPerfect engineer on the phone. He had given me access to the WordPerfect source code, but I couldn’t give him access to the Windows code. So we were each stepping through WordPerfect in the debugger, him in Utah and me in Bellevue. I could see what his code was doing and what Windows was doing, but he could only see disassembly for Windows. FTA: Instead, we needed to inject our secondary dex files directly into the system class loader. This isn't normally possible, but we examined the Android source code and used Java reflection to directly modify some of its internal structures. We were certainly glad and grateful that Android is open source —otherwise, this change wouldn’t have been possible. Facebook are not saying that Android/Dalvik has a broken API. They are saying that that due to the size of their app they hit an interna limit, this buffer limit increased between platform versions and they needed to create a robust hack to get their code working on older platforms, They were able to do this by taking advantage of the open-source nature of the platform and they did not need a Google engineer on hand to help them though they did get to use a Google test lab (which is not fair on smaller companies). Also Google have not inserted code into Android/Dalvik to deal with the Facebook trickery.