Running 32bits apps on modern smarphone?

Hi here!

Nothing important, but just a little dose of nostalgia, I’d like to run some old Android games.
For example: Rabbids (Lapins Crétins), Angry birds 1, Flappy bird,…

Some of these old games are no longer available on the Play Store anymore but one can download the APK file. Problem: it is only 32bits (armv7) architecture…

Searching online for a solution, I found 3 hints:

  • decompile 32 bit apk and compile to 64 bit. Using tools like APKTool… But it seems it’s complicated, especially if you don’t have the source code. And you need to find the 64bit version of the necessary libraries (files .so).

  • use a emulator inside Android. It was suggested VPhoneOS (formerly VPhoneGaGa) but on my FP5 it crashed a few seconds after startup.

  • root, then add an Magisk Xposed module that enable 32-bit support on arm64 hardware…

Does anyone of you have experience or suggestions on that topic?

Regards,
Olivier

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Just a little update, I found that Angry birds was recently (March 2022) re-released :slight_smile:

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