Deprecated support for the 32bit OS Architecture #3090
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G'day @iBotPeaches, I didn't feel right about opening this as an issue so I opened it as a question here. I've been using Apktool for quite some time now and I love it, so first I want to say thank you for such a great work of art. Second, I would like to ask about the deprecation of 32bit arch support, this morning when testing new updates for my project on a 32bit arch Kali Linux VM, everything worked fine until it came to running Apktool (currently utilising I am just wondering why the support for 32bit arch has dropped? I seen on some issues it had something to with aapt/aapt2 & |
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Mainly because AOSP dropped it for build tools. So I was then mixing building 32/64 for platforms that could on top of aapt/aapt2 and even debating the introduction of arm support. So when I realized that modifying AOSP to build 32bit that it no longer did by default was consuming way too much time - it seemed easier to drop 32bit. |
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Ok that makes a lot of sense, sounded like a bit of a headache for you! So 64bit OS architecture is the go-to arch type for operating Apktool as of 2.7.0 is this correct if my understanding of what you have told me is correct also? 😁 |
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Yeah 64bit has been suggested I think since like 2.5.0. |
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Awesome, thank you for answering my question very clearly, and thank you for the quick response to 😁 |
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Mainly because AOSP dropped it for build tools. So I was then mixing building 32/64 for platforms that could on top of aapt/aapt2 and even debating the introduction of arm support. So when I realized that modifying AOSP to build 32bit that it no longer did by default was consuming way too much time - it seemed easier to drop 32bit.