Testing on Emulators - Both the 32-bit and 64-bit Android Emulator system images are supported by the 64-bit version of the Android Emulator.

Testing on both architectures can help you to get ready for the 64-bit requirement on Google Play which starts on August 1st, 2019.

64-bit App Support - You can build both 32-bit and 64-bit versions of apps if your app uses C/C++ native code.

The increase in memory especially provides a better experience when you are working on a large project.

Performance - The IDE can perform better because it can access more than 4GB of memory.

There are a few advantages to using a 64-bit version of Android Studio, which include:

The exact dates for the depreciation and end-of-support period are in the table below:Īdvantages of a 64-bit development environment Note, if you have the 32-bit version of Android Studio previously installed during this period then the product should continue to work, but we will not provide a link for you to re-download the product. After one year, we will officially end product support and will remove the 32-bit product version download links. During this transition period you can still download the product from the Android Studio web site. During the depreciation phase, both Android Studio and the Android Emulator will continue to work but the products will not receive new feature updates. To minimize the impact of this change towards exclusively supporting 64-bit operating systems, we will first deprecate the 32-bit version. To aid in this transition for those developers using 32-bit versions of Microsoft Windows, we want to give you details on the upcoming depreciation timeline plus steps to take to be ready for this upcoming change. While this change will not affect most Android Studio users, this change does have an impact if you use 32-bit versions of Microsoft ® Windows ®.

Using Android Studio with an 64-bit operating systems enables efficient access to memory for both the IDE and the Android Emulator, and overall leads to a better development experience. To this end, we are sharpening our product focus and we will only support 64-bit operating systems going forward.

Performance is an underlying tenant to delivering a high quality IDE. With Project Marble, the Android Studio team focused our efforts on making the fundamental features and flows of the Integrated Development Environment (IDE) rock-solid. Posted by Sam Lin, Product Manager, Android

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