Arm has announced that all of its Cortex-A CPUs will soon be 64-bit only, with no 32-bit compatibility. Here's what it all means.

We posted a poll a few weeks ago, asking whether you used 32-bit Android apps on your phone. It turns out that many readers don't know.

Xiaomi and OnePlus have both implemented a 32-bit to 64-bit Arm binary translator called "Tango" to allow old apps to run on their phones.

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.

So, when you run Android, which is a 32-bit environment on top of that 64-bit kernel, you're getting the advantages, even in a 32-bit environment, of the 64-bit kernel," he said.

Users with 64-bit devices simply won't see 32-bit only apps in Google Play, including games built with Unity 5.6 or older. "We are not making changes to our policy on 32-bit support.