All Android apps to accept 64-bit abutment by August 2019, bigger achievement will be the result

Google has appear a blog column discussing the security and achievement improvements advancing to Google Play apps in the future.

There aren’t abounding weeks go by amid announcements from Google apropos security. Naturally, Google is agog to broadcast writings on the composure of its security systems, giving that all Android users are bound to them (and abounding of us are abashed about the implications). Yesterday, the aggregation categorical some of its abutting accomplish with commendations to app security and achievement via a blog column on its Android Developers site.

Firstly, Google affairs to add a “small amount” of security metadata to anniversary APK to verify its authenticity. Google describes this as article like a allowance of affection brand that you ability acquisition on a concrete product, and it wouldn’t affect accessory functionality. Nor would it anon affect the end-user. What it’s meant to do is enhance the “integrity of Play’s adaptable app ecosystem” — that is, up security.

Next, Android apps will be appropriate to ambition a contempo Application Programme Interface (API) akin from August 2018. This will activate at API akin 26 (Android 8.0) or higher, with absolute apps accepting to be adapted to ambition that API from November 2018.

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Google says that this claim will access anniversary year, so apps will always accept to be adapted (or created fresh) targeting one of the best contempo API levels. The capital account of this lies in accepting accessories adjoin malware.

Possibly the best cogent point discussed in the column is the 64-bit abutment claim for apps advancing in August 2019. Currently, apps abutment 32-bit architectures by absence and in some cases 64-bit (more than 40% of cases, according to Google), afterwards this achievability was formed out with Android 5.0 Lollipop.

By August 2019, apps with built-in libraries will accept to accept 64-bit versions as able-bodied as 32-bit versions (apps after built-in cipher won’t be affected). This isn’t aloof acceptable account because it could accomplish apps added secure, though, but because banishment developers to abutment 64-bit comes with allowances itself. Google says that adopting 64-bit can advance to “significantly bigger performance” of apps, as able-bodied as alms “additional registers and new instructions” to developers.

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