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0 pointsflohofwoe2y ago0 comments

I wonder what that means for the Android SDK, which AFAIK requires an ancient Java8 runtime for the command line SDK tools on macOS.

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pjmlp2y ago

Android team has been forced to accept Kotlin without the Java ecosystem is an oxymoron, thus not only is ART updatable since Android 12, Java 17 LTS is now the latest supported version.

And on the SDK side, they need to use whatever InteliJ requires.

vbezhenar2y ago

Java 8 is not EOL.

kaba02y ago

It is not, if you pay for support.

vbezhenar2y ago

No, you can just download Adoptium, Azul and probably other builds. They're up to date and will be for few years. Not sure about Oracle, but wouldn't recommend it anyway.

saurik2y ago

They now seem to work with Java 11.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse

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pjmlp2y ago

Android team has been forced to accept Kotlin without the Java ecosystem is an oxymoron, thus not only is ART updatable since Android 12, Java 17 LTS is now the latest supported version.

And on the SDK side, they need to use whatever InteliJ requires.

vbezhenar2y ago

Java 8 is not EOL.

kaba02y ago

It is not, if you pay for support.

vbezhenar2y ago

No, you can just download Adoptium, Azul and probably other builds. They're up to date and will be for few years. Not sure about Oracle, but wouldn't recommend it anyway.

saurik2y ago

They now seem to work with Java 11.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse