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Unfortunately a lot of people don’t have access to Java 8 on the largest customer facing Java platform (android). The java.time libraries are available on andr

Unfortunately a lot of people don’t have access to Java 8 on the largest customer facing Java platform (android). The java.time libraries are available on android starting API level 26 https://developer.android.com/reference/java/time/package-summary https://developer.android.com/reference/java/time/package-su... That is android 11, released in September of 2020 which is not widely distributed. Does anyone know why the delay? It looks like Java 8 language features finally became compatible through some compatibility layer in Gradle 4. Was it because of the lawsuits?

vips7L 6y ago
Personally, I don't consider Android to be Java and I am quite happy that Google is pushing Kotlin now instead.
ohgodplsno 6y ago
Basically, yes. Google has been awfully slow at implementing some Java 8+ features. Their current solution is D8 desugaring, which basically rewites all the APIs into JDK8 compatible code.
EddieRingle 6y ago
This is incorrect. You can use APIs like java.time on any version by using desugaring: https://developer.android.com/studio/write/java8-support#library-desugaring https://developer.android.com/studio/write/java8-support#lib...