Fresco imagepipeline 16 KB page-size fix: upgrade to 3.9.0 (native code removed in 2.3.0)

Artifact com.facebook.fresco:imagepipeline · measured 2026-10-01 · all libraries

native code removed

From 2.3.0 on, Fresco imagepipeline no longer ships arm64-v8a/x86_64 .so files in this artifact, so upgrading removes the problem here. The natives were removed or moved; see what that means.

Caveats

ARCHITECTURE-SPECIFIC: the last offending measurement 2.0.0 is x86_64-only; its arm64-v8a libraries are aligned
Sampled, not exhaustive: 17 of 58 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	`2.0.0`	`jni/x86_64/libimagepipeline.so`	4 KB (2^12)	Thu, 13 Jun 2019 15:04:30 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 (17)

0.5.1, 0.5.2, 0.5.3, 0.7.0, 0.8.1, 0.11.0, 0.13.0, 1.0, 1.0.1, 1.3.0, 1.5.0, 1.8.0, 1.9.0, 1.12.0, 1.13.0, 1.14.2, 2.0.0

Native libraries seen: libbitmaps.so, libgifimage.so, libimagepipeline.so, libmemchunk.so, libwebp.so, libwebpimage.so.

The Gradle change

implementation("com.facebook.fresco:imagepipeline:3.9.0")

native code removed: 2.3.0 and later (measured latest 3.9.0) contain no arm64-v8a/x86_64 .so; upgrade, then check whether the natives moved to a separate artifact and measure that one // ARCHITECTURE-SPECIFIC: the last offending measurement 2.0.0 is x86_64-only; its arm64-v8a libraries are aligned

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

./gradlew :app:dependencyInsight --dependency imagepipeline --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/facebook/fresco/imagepipeline/2.0.0/imagepipeline-2.0.0.aar
python3 check16k.py imagepipeline-2.0.0.aar

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

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