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chii on Oct 13, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: It’s Been Real, Android: Why I’m Retiring from And...

Other than the slightly different standard libraries, what else is different? Android Java is effectively the same as java 7, and any difference is solely attributed to library/SDK/api.

pjmlp on Oct 13, 2016 [–]

They don't support all the language features, specially the ones that make use of the new bytecodes.

This will only get worse when Java 9, specially Java 10 gets released.

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