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Re:Android Studio 1.0 released by needusername on Monday December 08, 2014 @02:53PM (#8718705)
Is Java 7 already supported? I don't mean the syntax I mean invokedynamic, java.lang.invoke, new filesystem API, ….
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Re:Android Studio 1.0 released by ademar111190 on Monday December 08, 2014 @03:19PM (#8718903)
Yes it is supported, but java 8 has strong improvements like lambdas and closure and default methods in interfaces, and the java 8 is still unsupported :(
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Re:Android Studio 1.0 released by needusername on Tuesday December 09, 2014 @02:32AM (#8721513)
Really? Lambdas require exactly 0 vm support beyond invokedynamic which is already present in Java 7.

The official documentation http://developer.android.com/reference/packages.html lists one of the invokedynamic (java.lang.invoke) nor file system (java.nio.file) packages so I assume they are missing.

What little documentation I could find suggests that there is only source compatibility for 1.7 http://tools.android.com/tech-docs/new-build-system/user-gui... with actual invokedynamic VM-support missing.

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