NDK about to be incompatible with Google Play

[sgarman]

For those who haven’t seen the announcement https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2019/01/get-your-apps-ready-for-64-bit.html it will no longer be possible to upload or update apps using native code must provide a 64-bit version (in addition to the 32-bit version)

Have I missed an an announcement of how the AIDE developers plan to help us deal with this issue?

Surely it is not likely they plan to abandon those of us who have native code in our projects. Is there a timeline for when we will be able to compile in 64 bit versions from the source code?

Where should I be looking for feedback from the devs on this kind of issue?

[Karaethon]

Here’s a possibly stupid question… What is native code? I use Java in AIDE, is that native code?

[sgarman]

No, it won’t affect you if you are using just java code and not maintaining .so files.

The problem arises if you use the NDK to implement parts of your app in native code, using languages such as C and C++.

Since there is no response from the devs at all about anything, I assume they have abandoned the NDK and for a tiny part of my code, I will need to use Android Studio, for which I don’t currently have a device.

For me that is a great shame because AIDE has been enough to develop plugins, which is all I do with java but I assume it doesn’t affect many people.