Unless their app uses the NDK, Android developers don't need to do anything special to make their apps support 64-bit CPUs. With ART, apps are distributed as portable bytecode and are compiled to native code at install time. The final compilation to assembler takes place on the end users' devices rather on the developer's computer.
You can't count June as the sixth month as the app updates need to be 64-bit by June 1st,not June 30th. That means the last 32-bit update could be submitted May 31st (assuming Apple accepts the upload).
With more than half of December gone, it really is 5.5 months: January (1), February (2), March (3), April (4), May (5), plus whatever's left of December.
The point I was making is that he is right. That's what my comment about the front or the back of the finger meant. If you count with the front of the finger, you get the beginning of the month. If you count with the back, you get the end of the month. So counting to June with the front of the finger gives you June 1, which is as it should be, at 5.5 months. Count with the back of the finger, or the entire finger, gives you the end of the month.
Unless their app uses the NDK, Android developers don't need to do anything special to make their apps support 64-bit CPUs. With ART, apps are distributed as portable bytecode and are compiled to native code at install time. The final compilation to assembler takes place on the end users' devices rather on the developer's computer.
Ah, if it were only that simple. We can all remember Google's standards, and guidelines, for independent Rez. That didn't work out either. You still need to do manual work on these things, unless the app is very simple. I'd be willing to bet that Apple has this worked out better than Google does.
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No wonder Android devices are laggy.
The deadline is June 1st, which is EXACTLY 5 1/2 months from today. The method that you used to count must not be as accurate as you thought.
Apple began alerting developers to the 64-bit requirement for new applications in October
Nov 1
Dec 1
Jan 1
Feb 1
Mar 1
Apr 1
May 1
Total 7
Does this look right? Not that it really matters
The point I was making is that he is right. That's what my comment about the front or the back of the finger meant. If you count with the front of the finger, you get the beginning of the month. If you count with the back, you get the end of the month. So counting to June with the front of the finger gives you June 1, which is as it should be, at 5.5 months. Count with the back of the finger, or the entire finger, gives you the end of the month.
It was a joke. Get it?
Ah, if it were only that simple. We can all remember Google's standards, and guidelines, for independent Rez. That didn't work out either. You still need to do manual work on these things, unless the app is very simple. I'd be willing to bet that Apple has this worked out better than Google does.
I see you didn't get the joke either. Oh well.