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Is this usable in Android?

• myko 14y ago
  I don't think so. It will be awhile before Dalvik supports the new bytecodes in Java 8. I'd like to know how long though. edit: or new bytecodes from Java 7 which will be required for Java 8 features
  • magicSystem 14y ago
    There's no new bytecodes in Java 8. Lambdas will compile down to invokedynamic calls (jdk7)
    • hackerpolicy 14y ago
      Which will be fine once Android starts supporting Java 7.
      • amalter 14y ago
        You can compile invokedynamic into reflection pretty easily. Obviously you lose the method call optimization, but you can keep the syntatic sugar. I would be very surprised if the backports folks didn't offer this within a few months.