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by jillesvangurp 2521 days ago
Interesting. This probably is because of some hardware limitations on some older android hardware platforms.

The java.util.concurrent package was added in Java 5 and before that existed as a third party library (by Doug Lee). It contains a lot of concurrency primitives and makes use of a lot of things, including lock free instructions and optimistic locking: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_concurrency