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title: "What is Dalvik Virtual Machine?"  
description: "What is Dalvik Virtual Machine?"  
author: "Khushi Kapoor"  
published: 2018-01-10  
canonical: https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/32821/what-is-dalvik-virtual-machine  
category: "technology"  
tags: ["android", "dalvik virtual machine"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# What is Dalvik Virtual Machine?

What is Dalvik [Virtual](https://www.mindstick.com/blog/749/pure-virtual-function-c-plus-plus) Machine?

## Answers

### Answer by Prateek sharma

**Dalvik virtual machine** or DVM is an android virtual machine which is targeted to use the **lower powered devices** which are low on memory and have low processing powersuch as mobile phones.

Dalvic is developed by **Dan Bornstein**.

A Dalvik virtual machine usually converts a class file into .dex file. it may convert multiple class files into a single dex file.

the below figure illustrates how DVM works. it works with the **JVM** since in android we have java files which need to be compiled first in order to get the bytecode for that file.

![What is Dalvik Virtual Machine?](https://answers.mindstick.com/questionanswer/732b9905-fc4b-49e8-a8cd-e85240fca60d/images/e3980682-a451-4b88-99f6-15c91a4cccc4.png)\


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