Posted by Dan Brown – Product Supervisor, Google Play

Google Play empowers you to handle and distribute your modern and trusted apps and video games to billions of customers all over the world throughout all the breadth of Android gadgets, and traditionally, all Android gadgets have managed reminiscence in 4 KB pages.

As system producers equip gadgets with extra RAM to optimize efficiency, many will undertake bigger web page sizes like 16 KB. Android 15 introduces help for the elevated web page measurement, guaranteeing your app can run on these evolving gadgets and profit from the related efficiency positive aspects.

Beginning November 1st, 2025, all new apps and updates to current apps submitted to Google Play and concentrating on Android 15+ gadgets should help 16 KB web page sizes.

This can be a key technical requirement to make sure your customers can profit from the efficiency enhancements on newer gadgets and prepares your apps for the platform’s future route of improved efficiency on newer {hardware}. With out recompiling to help 16 KB pages, your app may not operate accurately on these gadgets once they grow to be extra broadly out there in future Android releases.

We’ve seen that 16 KB may help with:

• Quicker app launches: See enhancements starting from 3% to 30% for varied apps.
• Improved battery utilization: Expertise a median achieve of 4.5%.
• Faster digital camera begins: Launch the digital camera 4.5% to six.6% quicker.
• Speedier system boot-ups: Boot Android gadgets roughly 8% quicker.

We suggest checking your apps early particularly for dependencies that may not but be 16 KB appropriate. Many fashionable SDK suppliers, like React Native and Flutter, already provide appropriate variations. For recreation builders, a number of main recreation engines, similar to Unity, help 16 KB, with help for Unreal Engine coming quickly.

Reaching 16 KB compatibility

A considerable variety of apps are already appropriate, so your app could already work seamlessly with this requirement. For many of those who have to make changes, we anticipate the adjustments to be minimal.

• Apps with no native code needs to be appropriate with none adjustments in any respect.
• Apps utilizing libraries or SDKs that include native code could have to replace these to a appropriate model.
• Apps with native code could have to recompile with a more moderen toolchain and test for any code with incompatible low stage reminiscence administration.

Our December weblog submit, Get your apps prepared for 16 KB web page measurement gadgets, supplies a extra detailed technical rationalization and steering on tips on how to put together your apps.

Verify your app’s compatibility now

It is easy to see in case your app bundle already helps 16 KB reminiscence web page sizes. Go to the app bundle explorer web page in Play Console to test your app’s construct compliance and get steering on the place your app may have updating.

Past the app bundle explorer, be certain to additionally check your app in a 16 KB atmosphere. This may assist you to guarantee customers don’t expertise any points and that your app delivers its greatest efficiency.

For extra data, try the full documentation.

Thanks in your continued help in bringing pleasant, quick, and high-performance experiences to customers throughout the breadth of gadgets Play helps. We stay up for seeing the improved experiences you may ship with 16 KB help.