Google I/O 2008: Dalvik Virtual Machine Internals

HN points to it as the primary source on Dalvik's dex bytecode, register-based design and memory-saving choices.

Dan Bornstein's Google I/O 2008 talk on the internals of Dalvik, the virtual machine that runs Android code. It covers the motivation for its design, the dex format and its register-based interpreter, plus tips for writing code that suits the platform.