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As you may know, from August 1, 2019 all Android-releases must be compliant with the Google Play 64-bit requirement. Will Kivy + Buildozer allow us to create such apps?

Thank you in advance!

vitor morev
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From the comments, here's an open issue on the Kivy repository about plans for Kivy to support Google's upcoming 64-bit binary requirement. Here's a comment from one of the devs:

In https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2017/12/improving-app-security-and-performance.html:

In August 2019, Play will require that new apps and app updates with native libraries provide 64-bit versions in addition to their 32-bit versions.

I think we should default to arm64-v8a to prevent issues later, and start thinking how we can do multiple targets compilation and embedded them in one APK.

...which has three thumbs-ups.

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miike3459
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Buildozer already allows you to create such apps, just change the android.arch configuration token in buildozer.spec to arm64-v8a instead of the default armeabi-v7a.

We don't support APKs with multiple architectures bundled together, mostly because this would significantly increase their size due to all the compiled components, but you can upload one APK of each type to Google Play.

We'll probably update the defaults and provide more documentation about it within the next few months.

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It's simple, Just go to line 232 in the buildozer.spec file and change the arch to arm64-v8a and then build the app and then again build the app by changing the arch of buildozer.spec file to armeabi-v7a. On Google Play console, upload both the files.

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