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Reputation: 15402

Android 64 bits compatibility and 'armeabi'?

Google recently informed the developer that the apps have to be 64 bits compatible.

We have to check if the bundle contains arm64-v8a and x86_64 folders.

In my app, I have got arm64-v8a folder but also 'simple' 'armeabi' and 'x86' folders (without -v7 or -v8 extensions)

Are these kinds of folders ok for the 64 bits compatibility? How to check if the associated libs are 64 bits compatible ?

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Upvotes: 1

Views: 921

Answers (1)

Michael
Michael

Reputation: 58497

armeabi is an old ABI, compatible with the ARMv5 architecture. It is no longer supported by the NDK (i.e. you can't build for it with recent versions of the NDK).

The 64-bit ABIs are arm64-v8a and x86_64.

armeabi-v7a is 32-bit, but such devices may still be common (I haven't looked at any statistics), so it might be a good idea to still build for it.

As for 32-bit x86 devices, I'm not sure if any Android device have ever been made that uses non-64-bit x86 processors. I guess there may be some really old PCs to which Android has been ported by enthusiasts.

Upvotes: 1

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