Here’s a surprise: We knew Android was getting ready to drop 32-bit app support sometime soon, with the upcoming Pixel Tablet receiving code check-ins to prep it for a 64-bit only version of Android.

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While the Android ecosystem moved in large part to support 64-bit architectures way back in 2014 with Android 5.0, one of the most commonly used web browsers has lacked 64-bit support. Chrome has only ...

It turns out that the Google Pixel 7 series doesn’t actually support 32-bit Android apps, making it quite possibly the first Android phones to support 64-bit apps only. That made us wonder whether any ...

Google has today announced that Android Studio will be dropping support for 32-bit PCs starting in 2020 as it pushes to the more efficient 64-bit processing that’s gone mainstream over the years. As ...

As of August 2020, Pokemon Go will stop supporting 32-bit Android devices, which means that older smartphone owners will not be able to access their accounts on devices at all. This might force you to ...

Linaro, the open-source development consortium for Linux on ARM architecture, is working on software, tools and drivers that could hasten the release of 64-bit Android. The move is significant because ...

Today, Google announced that moving forward, it will only support 64-bit versions of Android Studio. The 32-bit version will be deprecated at the end of the year, and will be discontinued in 2020.

A year ago, Google gave Android app developers a heads-up about a new 64-bit requirement coming to the Google Play store in August 2019, and now it has outlined more details about its 64-bit ...

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Google is rolling out 64-bit versions of Chrome to the Chrome Dev and Chrome Canary versions. Some users are reporting 64-bit versions of the app on earlier revisions of Chrome. Only Android 10 and ...

"What nobody noticed was that the Pixel 7 is also dropping 64-bit app support, so its release yesterday is taking a big step toward Android's 64-bit-only future." Little typo to point out here, I ...