Thanks for the insight on this with the links provided
Thought it was hype to use x86, but Intel dropped it so.
I hope the emulator for ARM64 will speed up somehow then
Op 22-9-2019 om 20:51 schreef J. Landman Gay via use-livecode:
Thanks Ralph. I'm really looking forward to your utility because it
looks like I'm going to need to build 4 apks. I phrased my question
wrong, what I actually meant was "is it worth it to build for x86?"
I did some poking around and found that x86 devices (both 32 and 64
bit) comprise about 1% of the market, as of 2 years ago. Since Intel
stopped supporting the chip it's probably less than that now, except
for one thing: Chromebooks.
<https://stackoverflow.com/questions/33228158/android-architecture-usage>
<https://android.stackexchange.com/questions/186334/what-percentage-of-android-devices-runs-on-x86-architecture>
If you don't care about Chromebooks, it seems a bit of a waste to
bother with the x86 builds, which will still run with an ARM build but
slower. However in my case, I do need to support Chromebooks, many of
which use an x86-something processor. So I guess I'll need to support
all four.
I kind of like your option 4, but I guess uploading four times instead
of two isn't that big a deal anyway.
On 9/21/19 10:20 PM, Ralph DiMola wrote:
Long answer:
Option 1
Build one big apk for all 4 architectures.
Option 2
Build 4 apks (one for each architecture) you get these advantages over
option 1:
1) The PlayStore will download the proper apk for the user's
architecture
thereby reducing the install/update time
2) You will target more devices because 1 large apk could exceed the
max apk
size for some devices.
3) x86 devices performance will be 5x to 10x faster.
Option 3
Build 1 apk for both the arm and arm64 architectures to reduce the
option 1
apk size. App will run slow on x86 devices because it will run in an arm
emulator. You could also possibly exceed the apk size for some
devices but
not as many as option 1
Option 4
Build 2 apks one for each arm architecture to reduce the apk size and
optimize the install time(as in option 2). App will run slow on x86
devices
because it will run in an arm emulator.
Option 5
Build 2 apks one for both arm architectures and one with both x86
architectures. X86 devices will run fast. You could also possibly
exceed the
apk size for some devices but not as many as option 1.
Short answer:
Yes. (option 4)
I'm working on my Android build plug-in to do the 4 builds with one
operation. You will only have to enter the signing crap once for all 4
builds. As soon as I get it done I will share it with the community.
Ralph DiMola
IT Director
Evergreen Information Services
rdim...@evergreeninfo.net
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Subject: Android architectures
When submitting to the Play Store, is it really necessary to build four
apks? Or can we get away with just the ARM two?
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