Android developers will have to comply with two new requirements if they want their apps to be available on Google Play in the future. Those include supporting a recent Android version and adding support for 64-bit native code. Additionally, Google will start including some security metadata to improve APK authenticity verification.

According to Google, the main reason for requiring an app to support a recent API version is benefiting from security and privacy improvements that Google has been incrementally adding to the Android platform. This does not mean developers should stop supporting older Android versions, which is still encouraged.

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