MapLibre 16 KB page-size fix: upgrade to 11.5.0

Artifact org.maplibre.gl:android-sdk · measured 2026-10-01 · all libraries

fixed

MapLibre versions up to and including 11.4.0 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 11.5.0; the newest measured, 13.6.1, is aligned.

Caveats

Sampled, not exhaustive: 38 of 107 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	`11.4.0`	`jni/arm64-v8a/libmaplibre.so`	4 KB (2^12)	Sun, 15 Sep 2024 14:40:00 GMT	artifact
First aligned	`11.5.0`	`jni/arm64-v8a/libmaplibre.so`	16 KB (2^14)	Mon, 23 Sep 2024 22:03:00 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)

9.2.1, 9.3.0, 9.4.0, 9.4.1, 9.4.2, 9.5.0, 9.5.1, 9.5.2, 10.0.0, 10.2.0, 10.3.2-hwasan1, 10.3.3, 11.0.0-pre0, 11.0.0-pre5, 11.2.0, 11.3.0-vulkan-pre0, 11.4.0

Native libraries seen: libmapbox-gl.so, libmaplibre.so.

The Gradle change

implementation("org.maplibre.gl:android-sdk:11.5.0")

an aligned version, lowest measured above the last offending one; newer measured versions are aligned too (latest 13.6.1). Check: ./gradlew :app:dependencyInsight --dependency android-sdk --configuration releaseRuntimeClasspath

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

./gradlew :app:dependencyInsight --dependency android-sdk --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/org/maplibre/gl/android-sdk/11.5.0/android-sdk-11.5.0.aar
python3 check16k.py android-sdk-11.5.0.aar

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

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