Vosk 16 KB page-size fix: upgrade to 0.3.70

Artifact com.alphacephei:vosk-android · measured 2026-10-01 · all libraries

fixed

Vosk versions up to and including 0.3.47 that we measured ship 4 KB-aligned native libraries (offending for Google Play's 16 KB page-size requirement). The first measured aligned stable version is 0.3.70; the newest measured, 0.3.75, is aligned.

Caveats

Sampled, not exhaustive: 10 of 10 published versions were measured with native code; unmeasured versions in between are unknown.

Measured evidence

	Version	Library file	p_align	File date	Source
Last offending	`0.3.47`	`jni/arm64-v8a/libvosk.so`	4 KB (2^12)	Wed, 15 Mar 2023 21:44:34 GMT	artifact
First aligned	`0.3.70`	`jni/arm64-v8a/libvosk.so`	16 KB (2^14)	Wed, 03 Sep 2025 07:42:33 GMT	artifact

p_align is the smallest PT_LOAD segment alignment of the ELF. 16 KB-compatible needs at least 16384 (2^14). Method: min PT_LOAD p_align of arm64-v8a/x86_64 .so inside the published AAR/JAR; aligned = >=16384 for every lib. Dates are repository file times, not official release dates.

Offending versions measured (8)

0.3.32, 0.3.33, 0.3.34, 0.3.37, 0.3.38, 0.3.45, 0.3.46, 0.3.47

Native libraries seen: libvosk.so.

The Gradle change

implementation("com.alphacephei:vosk-android:0.3.70")

an aligned version, lowest measured above the last offending one; newer measured versions are aligned too (latest 0.3.75). Check: ./gradlew :app:dependencyInsight --dependency vosk-android --configuration releaseRuntimeClasspath

Confirm what Gradle actually resolves, since another dependency may pull an older version:

./gradlew :app:dependencyInsight --dependency vosk-android --configuration releaseRuntimeClasspath

Re-verify it yourself

Download the artifact and run the free checker (check16k.py, Python 3, no dependencies):

curl -LO https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/com/alphacephei/vosk-android/0.3.70/vosk-android-0.3.70.aar
python3 check16k.py vosk-android-0.3.70.aar

Exit 0 = aligned, 1 = an unaligned library found. Better still, run it on your final .aab/.apk.

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