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Note that Android does not use the Java VM. It never has. Initially code was compiled for the Dalvik VM, but more recently code is compiled for Art:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_Runtime

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There is no single Java VM. There's a specification with a significant number of different implementations, and the OpenJDK-based one is far from the only one in use today.

Also code is still compiled to the same format that the Dalvik VM consumed. ART is just a different system for getting from Java bytecode to something executable.

They aren't even architecturally similar. The ART VM is register based while the JVM is stack based.

To be fair I did say Java based VM.

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