"What nobody noticed was that the Pixel 7 is also dropping 64-bit app support, so its release yesterday is taking a big step toward Android's 64-bit-only future." Little typo to point out here, I ...

Matthew Zucca, a tech enthusiast and former consultant from Canada, joined Android Police in 2023. Leveraging his technical knowledge and previous consulting experience, Matthew got his first two ...

Xiaomi just launched their new Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 flagship devices, and they come with the Tango translator. This translator will help devices in the new Xiaomi 14 series to run 32-bit apps without ...

Qualcomm‘s brand-new chipset, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3, lacks support for 32-bit Arm apps. Despite this limitation, Xiaomi’s 14 series, the first phones to use this chipset, can still run these ...

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Google has moved to a 64-bit app ecosystem to offer a better software experience, with the latest Pixel 7 phones being the most recent demonstration of this shift. Following the lead, Xiaomi has now ...

Google’s Android operating system has supported 64-bit processors for more than 9 years. But up until recently, every Android phone and tablet that shipped with a 64-bit chip could also run apps and ...

It turns out that the Google Pixel 7 series doesn’t actually support 32-bit Android apps, making it quite possibly the first Android phones to support 64-bit apps only. That made us wonder whether any ...

Here’s a surprise: We knew Android was getting ready to drop 32-bit app support sometime soon, with the upcoming Pixel Tablet receiving code check-ins to prep it for a 64-bit only version of Android.

The Xiaomi 14 series is one of the first smartphones to be powered by the new Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 chip. This chip is a powerhouse, but there is one big omission—it lacks native support for 32-bit apps.