Ionic/Cordova & Android 64-bit requirement

Question

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, and I'm not sure what impact this has. What, specifically, does an Ionic/Cordova app need to do to meet this requirement?

Starting August 1, 2019:

All new apps and app updates that include native code are required to provide 64-bit versions in addition to 32-bit versions when publishing to Google Play.

Answer 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