Today, Google announced that moving forward, it will only support 64-bit versions of Android Studio. The 32-bit version will be deprecated at the end of the year, and will be discontinued in 2020.

Google is dropping update and overall product support for Android Studio on 32-bit systems starting later this year and into 2020.

More than that, it appears that some devices launching with Android 14 will be forced to support 64-bit-only apps, finally spelling the end for 32-bit-only applications.

What is 32-bit support, and why was it killed? Android started as a 32-bit operating system.

What nobody noticed was that the Pixel 7 is also dropping 32-bit app support, so its release yesterday is taking a big step toward Android's 64-bit-only future.