[mono-android] Supported architectures? armeabi-v7a

[Jonathan Pryor]

On Dec 12, 2011, at 5:24 PM, Vladimir Dimitrov wrote:
> So does this mean that we should always enable armeabi-v7a in cases when we use a lot of multi threading and floating point operations?

Maybe. Depends on the app. :-)

> I guess the trade off in this case is that if we include both there will be a bigger .apk as a result? Anything else?

That's pretty much it.

Furthermore, given that armeabi is ancient, and even the API level 14 emulator is armeabi-v7a, there is a case to be made that armeabi doesn't need to be supported at all, leaving you with just armeabi-v7a in your .apk. (Furthermore, I have no idea how many devices this would actually exclude, Firefox Mobile made the choice to go with supporting only armeabi-v7a, so this isn't an entirely unheard of decision.)

Either way, each libmonodroid.so is ~3MB in size, though this is compressed in the .apk to about 1.2MB, so you're looking at a minimum 1.2MB increase for each ABI you intend to support.

 - Jon