Ionic/cordova & Android 64-bit Requirement

Google has announced that beginning August 1st, 2019, all new apps and app updates must provide a 64-bit version in addition to a 32-bit version. I have an Ionic 3 (Cordova) app,

Solution 1:

It doesn't really depend on Cordova/Ionic, but in the plugins you use.

If any of the plugins you use, has .so libraries, then they should provide a 64 bit version of that library. If none of your plugins use .so libraries, then you are good to go.

If you are not sure if your plugins use .so libraries, Google recommends to check your apk (unzipping it or using APK analyzer). If you have a lib folder and it has armeabi-v7a and x86 folders, make sure there is also arm64-v8a and x86_64 folders with the same libraries in each of them.

For more information: https://developer.android.com/distribute/best-practices/develop/64-bit

Solution 2:

1. go to this link https://www.npmjs.com/package/cordova-plugin-build-architecture and install "npm i cordova-plugin-build-architecture"
2. Add the following lines in your "config.xml"

---

<preference name="xwalk64bit" value="true" />

---

<preference name="buildArchitecture" value="arm64" /> <!-- [If you want to fetch the 64 bit arm build] -->

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3. Last Step is you can run gradlew assembleRelease command in your cd platforms/android folder and see the build outputs apk with these folders "x86_64" & "arm64"