This development kit will help developers make better 64 bit optimized apps so when Android L rolls out, there will be plenty of apps ready to take the hardware advantage.

Google’s 64-bit compatible Android L is available for download as a developer preview, and mobile devices should be available by year-end after the final version of the OS is released.

Google’s announcement last year that the Google Play store will require new apps and app updates to provide 64-bit versions kickstarted the entire Android ecosystem ...

Intel has completed work on a 64-bit version of Android OS for x86 smartphones, and the software will be ready to load on handsets with its upcoming Atom 64-bit chip code-named Merrifield. Intel ...

Google has revealed plans to require Android apps in the Google Play Store to be available as 64-bit software, as part of moves to improve the apps' performance and security. The requirement will ...

A year ago, Google gave Android app developers a heads-up about a new 64-bit requirement coming to the Google Play store in August 2019, and now it has outlined more details about its 64-bit ...

Yesterday, Ars Reviews Editor Ron Amadeo told me he had observed some interesting activity in the GitHub repository for Android. Several commits made over the last couple of weeks have made extensive ...

As of August 2019, Android apps will have to support 64-bit code. They won't have to ditch 32-bit compatibility, but they can't cling exclusively to the past, either.

Apple may be the first company to introduce a smartphone with a 64-bit processor, but it may not be long before you start to see Android phones and tablets with 64-bit chips. Samsung has already ...