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Transition to using 16 KB page sizes for Android apps and games

(android-developers.googleblog.com)
95 points ingve | 1 comments | 11 Jul 25 07:04 UTC | HN request time: 0.238s | source
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AnonC ◴[15 Jul 25 04:13 UTC] No.44567762[source]▶
> Starting November 1st, 2025, all new apps and app updates that use native C/C++ code targeting Android 15+ devices submitted to Google Play must support 16 KB page sizes.

I realize that most apps wouldn’t need to make changes and that a recompilation would suffice, but is this time frame enough for the apps that do need code changes?

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1. ohdeargodno ◴[15 Jul 25 08:18 UTC] No.44569068[source]▶
If you, yourself have native code you're trying to build, it only required bumping the NDK (which is automatically bumped when you upgrade the android gradle plugin), so that's mostly an automatic step (provided you're not stuck on old, AGP7 build scripts).

If you depend on a package that uses a native library, you wait for them to update. Or you fork, bump AGP and rebuild.

It's a very minor change, unless you depend on unmaintained code.