Google Play 64-bit requirement & Flutter

[Ray Rischpater]

If you don’t deploy Flutter apps to the Google Play Store, you can stop reading now.

Dear Flutter developers,

If you have recently submitted a Flutter app to the Google Play Store, you may have received a warning to let you know of an upcoming deadline for supporting 64-bit in your app.

 

From August 1st, 2019, Android apps that use native code and target Android 9 Pie will be required to provide a 64-bit version in addition to the 32-bit version when publishing to the Google Play Store. Since all Flutter apps include native code, this requirement will affect new Flutter apps submitted to the store, as well as updates to existing Flutter apps. This does not affect existing app versions published to the store.

Flutter v1.7.8+hotfix.2, now in the beta channel, includes support for building app bundles and APKs that support both 32-bit and 64-bit binaries, completing our work on https://github.com/flutter/flutter/issues/31922. By using this release when building an Android application, your App Bundle or APK now supports both 32-bit and 64-bit CPU architectures by default.

We anticipate pushing this release to the stable channel on or about 8 July. In the meantime, if you want to test this functionality or need to submit a new build to the Google Play Store that satisfies this requirement before we push this build to the stable channel, you can switch to the beta channel by running flutter channel beta and rebuilding your application.

Best regards,

Ray Rischpater on behalf of the Flutter team.

Ray Rischpater |

Technical Program Manager, Flutter |

risch...@google.com |