Android: Plans to support 16kb page sizes

[phillippschmedt]

Android 15 will support 16 KB page sizes, see: https://developer.android.com/guide/practices/page-sizes

Running an example MAUI app on an Android 15 emulator with 16KB page sizes will crash the app on startup. It is to be expected that we will soon see devices that will run Android 15 and 16KB page sizes.

What is the current plan on 16KB page sizes support?

[Felix-Dev]

Looks like the .NET for Android team is already on this:

1. Make APK and shared library alignment configurable android#9046
2. https://github.com/dotnet/android/wiki/Android-support-for-devices-with-16k-pages
3. [Android] Runtime/BCL native libs need support for devices with 16k memory pages (arm64 and x64) runtime#103360

[phillippschmedt]

There still seem to be problems with Android 16kb. https://github.com/dotnet/maui/issues/27995