Yes. There are loads of commits in the Jack and ART repositories of AOSP relating to Java 8 features like lambdas, method references, and default methods. I'd

Yes. There are loads of commits in the Jack and ART repositories of AOSP relating to Java 8 features like lambdas, method references, and default methods. I'd expect them to come with the next release of Android (since they require new VM bytecode instructions), with a possible official back-port tool similar to Retrolambda.