[bitmapbrother]

From the Androiddev reddit

https://www.reddit.com/r/androiddev/comments/5zf1xo/future_o...

>I'm guessing the same API restrictions will apply as before? So lambda expressions, method references and type annotations will be available for every API level (so no more retrolambda, or maybe still for try-with-resource?), but other Java 8 features like default and static interface methods and streams are still only for 24 and up?

>>Yes, this is correct -- we are currently matching Jack's feature set. That means that we support lambdas, method references, type annotations, and repeated annotations for every API level; default and static interface methods are only supported for 24 and up. We are still not supporting try-with-resources below API 19. Java 8 APIs still depend on the API level since those are included with the OS (sadly, this means no java.time). For anyone interested, the source code for the Java 8 compatibility tool, which we call Desugar, is here:

https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel/tree/master/src/tools/an...