{"id":292532,"date":"2019-01-17T10:47:31","date_gmt":"2019-01-17T08:47:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=292532"},"modified":"2019-01-17T10:49:53","modified_gmt":"2019-01-17T08:49:53","slug":"google-to-deprecate-32-bit-android-apps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/292532-google-to-deprecate-32-bit-android-apps.html","title":{"rendered":"Google to deprecate 32-bit Android apps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google <a href=\"https:\/\/android-developers.googleblog.com\/2019\/01\/get-your-apps-ready-for-64-bit.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>has stated<\/strong><\/a> that it will deprecate 32-bit Android apps, and has set a deadline for developers to ensure their apps meet its 64-bit requirements.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;64-bit CPUs deliver faster, richer experiences for your users. Adding a 64-bit version of your app provides performance improvements, makes way for future innovation, and sets you up for devices with 64-bit only hardware,&#8221; said Google.<\/p>\n<p>The developer deadline is 1 August 2019, and from this date all new apps and updates that include native code are required to provide 64-bit versions in addition to 32-bit versions.<\/p>\n<p>From August 2021, Google Play will stop serving apps without 64-bit versions on 64-bit capable devices.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Supporting 64-bit prepares the ecosystem for the innovation enabled by the advanced compute capabilities of 64-bit devices, and for future Android devices that only support 64-bit code.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Google added that the 64-bit deadline does not affect APKs or app bundles that are designed for its Wear OS operating system.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/292474-the-next-version-of-android-will-have-a-dark-theme-and-desktop-mode.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">The next version of Android will have a dark theme and desktop mode<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google has stated that it will deprecate 32-bit Android apps, and has set a deadline for developers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":217554,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[56756,2560,397,167,10100],"class_list":["post-292532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-32-bit","tag-64-bit","tag-android","tag-google","tag-google-play"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292532"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292532"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":292542,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292532\/revisions\/292542"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}