> Remember when Google told everyone to test their Android apps on x86. And then again on MIPS? And then nothing happened. Developers will not waste their time.

> Remember when Google told everyone to test their Android apps on x86. And then again on MIPS? And then nothing happened. Developers will not waste their time. x86 builds of Android apps & libraries are extremely common to have since it's the most common target for emulators. As for MIPS, I don't think Google ever pushed it. It was just kinda there. Also also, this blog post is aimed at device manufacturers more than app developers which is why it talks about building AOSP & pending patches. It's not asking app devs to do anything (in fact it even says at the bottom "Make sure to stay tuned as we look into ways to make it as easy for Android developers writing native to target new platforms as it is for our Java and Kotlin developers!")