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Ravi Patil
Ravi Patil

Reputation: 317

What is DEX Compilation?

I'm newbie with android studio and want to know the difference between DEX compilation and DX compilation.Recently I read about DX compiler in Android studio 3.1. So, can anyone here explain me what is difference between them?

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adsamcik
adsamcik

Reputation: 1325

DEX compilation is the process of transforming .class bytecode into .dex bytecode for the Android Runtime (or Dalvik, for older versions of Android).

DX is DEX compiler.

What you read about is probably the new D8 compiler that Google introduced with Android Studio 3.0. In Android Studio 3.1 it will replace DX as default.

Upvotes: 2

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