Google’s announcement last year that the Google Play store will require new apps and app updates to provide 64-bit versions kickstarted the entire Android ecosystem ...

With the rollout of the Samsung Note 4 already underway, the concerns that Samsung makes one model with a Qualcomm processor and one model with a Exynos processor is rearing its ugly head again, just ...

As you may have noticed there was no Nexus hardware announcement at Google I/O and there is still no official word on the Nexus 8 (or 9) tablet. One of the reasons behind is that ART runtime and ...

Yesterday, Ars Reviews Editor Ron Amadeo told me he had observed some interesting activity in the GitHub repository for Android. Several commits made over the last couple of weeks have made extensive ...

The Android developer community has released an Android L emulator image specifically for Intel's x86 64-bit architecture. It will allow developers to build or optimize older apps for the upcoming ...

Google has revealed plans to require Android apps in the Google Play Store to be available as 64-bit software, as part of moves to improve the apps' performance and security. The requirement will ...

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 ...

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 ...

Android has supported 64-bit apps ever since Lollipop arrived in 2015, but they haven't been necessary. Now, however, Google is laying down the law... or rather, it will. As of August 2019, Android ...