Verifying 64-bit libraries are being loaded

If you're bundling native libraries inside your Android application, then you've probably already know that starting August 1, 2019, your apps published on Google Play will need to support 64-bit architectures. In this post I'll show how we can explicitly choose the 64-bit ABIs to run, and verify that the 64-bit library was indeed loaded at runtime.

The support 64-bit architectures guide provides a command for selecting which ABI libraries to use during the APK installation process:

# A successful install:
$ adb install --abi armeabi-v7a APK_FILE.apk
Success

This command can be handy when your APK includes several ABI libraries, your CPU able to run multiple ABIs and you want to explicitly specify which ABI to use.