UPDATED: Facebook, Google Team Up To Solve Android Gingerbread Dilemma

The relationship between Facebook and Google continues to improve, as the two Web titans recently collaborated to solve an issue with Google’s Android Gingerbread operating system that was preventing the social network from updating its applications for the platform.

The relationship between Facebook and Google continues to improve, as the two Web titans recently collaborated to solve an issue with Google’s Android Gingerbread operating system that was preventing the social network from updating its applications for the platform.

TechCrunch reported that Facebook Director of Mobile Engineering Mike Shaver detailed the process during a whiteboard session on Android at Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif.

Shaver said during the session that Android’s virtual machine, Dalvik, which runs Android apps that are installed, had a limit of 3 million methods, which Facebook exceeded, meaning that the social network could not add any more features to its app.

The solution, according to Shaver, was a patch of about six lines of code, and TechCrunch reported that Shaver added during the session:

We were able to send the patch over to Google to get their opinion.

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