[spullara]

There are reasons Oracle sued Google over Android and you just articulated one of them.

[iainmerrick]

It’s not Android per se that’s the problem, it’s that Android uses Gradle as a build system and Gradle uses Java.

The Gradle compatibility matrix is pretty complicated: https://docs.gradle.org/current/userguide/compatibility.html...

I’ve also used Facebook’s Buck build system, as an attempt to get away from Gradle, and it’s also fussy about JDK versions.