Google is dropping update and overall product support for Android Studio on 32-bit systems starting later this year and into 2020.

Today, Google announced that moving forward, it will only support 64-bit versions of Android Studio. The 32-bit version will be deprecated at the end of the year, and will be discontinued in 2020.

What is 32-bit support, and why was it killed? Android started as a 32-bit operating system.