Additional notes:

The SlingPlayer App by Sling Media, Inc.  doesn’t seem to connect to my Slingbox when I use the ART runtime.  I will retest this when I switch back to the Dalvik runtime.

There seems to be small bug in Lame4Android with Android 4.4 (both Dalvik and ART).  The file browser feature doesn’t work.  As a work-around, I specified the entire path to each file (/mnt/sdcard/….)