Check APK alignment for optimal Android performance
Zipalign is an archive alignment tool that optimizes APK files for Android:
Ensures uncompressed data within the APK is aligned on 4-byte boundaries for efficient mmap access
Properly aligned APKs use less RAM at runtime as resources can be memory-mapped directly
Android 11+ requires page-aligned shared libraries for APK Signature Scheme v4
Android Studio and Gradle automatically zipalign release builds
# Check alignment zipalign -c -v 4 your_app.apk # Align an APK zipalign -v 4 input.apk output.apk # Page-align for v4 signature (Android 11+) zipalign -p -v 4 input.apk output.apk
Encode, decode, measure sizes, and transform common formats.