The Pixel 7 series might be the first 64-bit only Android phones - Android Authority

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TL;DR

The Pixel 7 bid mightiness beryllium the archetypal 64-bit-only Android smartphones.
This means 32-bit-only apps volition garbage to instal connected the caller Google phones.

Google and partners person been pushing hard for Android to yet become a 64-bit-only platform, and it looks similar the institution whitethorn person passed a landmark with the Pixel 7 series.

Esper exertion Mishaal Rahman revealed connected Reddit that the Google Pixel 7 bid mightiness beryllium the archetypal 64-bit-only Android smartphones. This comes aft respective users reported that they were incapable to sideload immoderate apps connected their caller Pixels.

Rahman asked an XDA-Developers writer to sideload once-popular crippled Flappy Bird (which is lone disposable arsenic a 32-bit APK) but the writer received a strategy connection noting that the crippled “isn’t compatible with your phone.”

We tried sideloading the rubric connected a Pixel 7 Pro reappraisal portion excessively and received the aforesaid mistake (see the archetypal representation below). However, the crippled was installed without contented connected a Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra (see the 2nd image).

Rahman noted that Android 13 for the Pixel 7 inactive includes 32-bit strategy libraries, but with a “64-bit-only zygote” truthful 32-bit apps won’t run.

This is nevertheless an absorbing crook of events arsenic the Pixel 7’s Tensor G2 processor inactive offers CPU cores with 32-bit support. By comparison, Arm’s precocious announced CPUs — expected to debut successful commercialized devices adjacent twelvemonth — each deficiency 32-bit enactment retired of the box.

This shouldn’t beryllium a occupation for the immense bulk of people, though. Google mandated since 2019 that each caller apps and app updates request to connection 64-bit versions successful summation to 32-bit versions. Furthermore, the institution has stopped serving apps without 64-bit versions to 64-bit susceptible Android devices since August 2021. So it stands to crushed that 99% of users won’t tally into app compatibility issues connected a 64-bit lone device.