IVS player 16 KB page-size fix: upgrade to 1.34.0

Artifact com.amazonaws:ivs-player · measured 2026-10-01 · all libraries

fixed

IVS player versions up to and including 1.33.0 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 1.34.0; the newest measured, 1.56.0, is aligned.

Caveats

The boundary is not exact: only prerelease or unlisted versions lie between the last offending and the first aligned version, so an earlier aligned stable version cannot be ruled out.
Sampled, not exhaustive: 48 of 124 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	`1.33.0`	`jni/arm64-v8a/libplayercore.so`	4 KB (2^12)	Thu, 03 Oct 2024 16:12:06 GMT	artifact
First aligned	`1.34.0`	`jni/arm64-v8a/libplayercore.so`	16 KB (2^14)	Thu, 31 Oct 2024 14:13:43 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 (21)

1.0.0, 1.1.0, 1.2.0, 1.2.1, 1.3.0, 1.3.2, 1.3.3, 1.4.0, 1.6.0, 1.14.0, 1.20.0, 1.23.0-rc.3.1, 1.25.0-rc.1, 1.26.0, 1.29.0, 1.30.0, 1.31.0, 1.31.0-rc.2, 1.32.0, 1.33.0, 1.33.0-rc.1

Native libraries seen: libplayercore.so.

The Gradle change

implementation("com.amazonaws:ivs-player:1.34.0")

an aligned version, lowest measured above the last offending one; newer measured versions are aligned too (latest 1.56.0). Check: ./gradlew :app:dependencyInsight --dependency ivs-player --configuration releaseRuntimeClasspath

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

./gradlew :app:dependencyInsight --dependency ivs-player --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/amazonaws/ivs-player/1.34.0/ivs-player-1.34.0.aar
python3 check16k.py ivs-player-1.34.0.aar

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

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