Can burst support all android platforms in 2020?

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Hi, I have spend hours in understanding if burst is supported on armeabi-v7a and arm64-v8a and what I have understood so far that it is supported on all arm64-v8a but it is not supported on all armeabi-v7a because some armeabi-v7a supports Neon32 and other do not. (I am still not 100% sure). The main question is how much % of active mobile devices in market DOES NOT SUPPORT burst compilation.

When I see Burst documentation it says it supports arm32 thumb2/neon32 and armv8 AARCH64. But when I get builds from unity for the game, it gives me armeabi-v7a and arm64-v8a. I am confused what is arm32 same as arm-v7a? Is there larger portion of arm-v7a chips which do not support Neon32? By using burst in my game, am I going to ignore a very large portion of the android devices? Any guidance would be highly appreciated.

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Below is detail What I have understood so far.
In one image below, Android official site tells me that armeabi-v7a supports Thumb2 Instruction Set.

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And image from Burst documentation tells me that Arm32 Thumb2 is supported. The image is from 1.5.0-pre version but I have checked many previous versions also support this.
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Also we provide two apks to playstore. i.e. armeabi-v7a and arm64-v8a also. And these two will cover nearly all devices as per this answer of the stackoverflow. Android architecture usage? - Stack Overflow
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So as a result, burst support all android cpu architectures. This is my understanding but I will appreciate anyone verifying this. Thanks.

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All devices shipped after second half of 2014 is Arm64.
I dont have correct answer to your question but may be you just dont need to support armv7 devices at all :slight_smile:
In our project we just can not support so old devices because they too weak to run our game.

stackoverflow post that you found is too old too :slight_smile:

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Thanks for sharing info. I have asked some offline academic people as well and they have confirmed all v7a devices support Thumb-2 so this means burst is supported on all v7a and v8a devices.

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So at below link can find the detailed answer from Unity officials on my question. Anyone interested to know can visit this thread. Thanks.