One of the things that the Dalvik team created to make Android work for 1.0 was (and still is) called Zygote.117 Zygote is like the loaf of bread you slice when making a sandwich. You could, of course, bake the bread from scratch every time you made a sandwich, but that’s a lot of effort and time spent every time you want a sandwich. It’s obviously much faster and easier to have a loaf that you can just cut slices from to jump-start each sandwich. Zygote is like sandwich bread for applications.
