play-services-tflite-java 16 KB page-size fix: upgrade to 16.3.0

Artifact com.google.android.gms:play-services-tflite-java · measured 2026-10-01 · all libraries

fixed

play-services-tflite-java versions up to and including 16.1.0 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 16.3.0; the newest measured, 16.5.0, 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: 11 of 11 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	`16.1.0`	`jni/arm64-v8a/libtensorflowlite_jni_gms_client.so`	4 KB (2^12)	Wed, 03 May 2023 20:25:17 GMT	artifact
First aligned	`16.3.0`	`jni/arm64-v8a/libtensorflowlite_jni_gms_client.so`	16 KB (2^14)	Mon, 18 Nov 2024 14:40:37 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)

16.0.0, 16.0.0-beta01, 16.0.0-beta02, 16.0.0-beta03, 16.0.1, 16.1.0, 16.2.0-beta01, 16.2.0-beta02

Native libraries seen: libtensorflowlite_jni_gms_client.so.

The Gradle change

implementation("com.google.android.gms:play-services-tflite-java:16.3.0")

an aligned version, lowest measured above the last offending one; newer measured versions are aligned too (latest 16.5.0). Check: ./gradlew :app:dependencyInsight --dependency play-services-tflite-java --configuration releaseRuntimeClasspath

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

./gradlew :app:dependencyInsight --dependency play-services-tflite-java --configuration releaseRuntimeClasspath

Re-verify it yourself

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

curl -LO https://dl.google.com/android/maven2/com/google/android/gms/play-services-tflite-java/16.3.0/play-services-tflite-java-16.3.0.aar
python3 check16k.py play-services-tflite-java-16.3.0.aar

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

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