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by RyanZAG 4837 days ago
Massive issue here for many when it comes to Java 8 - what about Android ?

Android's dalvik is based off of Apache Harmony, which doesn't appear to be updating anymore. Does this mean no Java 8 for Android/Dalvik? Seems like it would be a major issue if so.
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pjmlp 4837 days ago
Google is yet to even add support for the Java 7 language constructs.
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georgemcbay 4837 days ago
The lack of any public direction on this from Google to Android developers has been annoying me for a while now. It seems like Android has decided to be stuck on Java 6 forever.

I'd love to see them really shake things up in Android by, eg, going with NaCL/PNaCL (or even something like seccomp2, don't really care) to manage sandboxing and exposing an API framework (so apps can present common UI widgets) with a C API (regardless of what it is written in underneath) making it relatively easy to consume from any language. Write your Android app in Go, Python, Java, whatever you want, as long as it has API bindings! But I'm not holding my breath on that.

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