Huh? They haven't even delivered Java 7 yet.

on_and_off · on June 30, 2015

IIRC they have both java 6 7 & 8 configurations in the new jack & jill toolchain. I don't know if it necessarily means that the integrality of Java 7 & 8 features will be ported.

bookwormAT · on June 29, 2015

Android supports Java 7 since October 2013.

needusername · on June 29, 2015

Really? The last time I checked invokedynamic, java.lang.invoke, java.nio.file.* and many more were still missing.

chii · on June 30, 2015

It supports java 7 syntax. Invoke dynamic you mentioned is a jvm feature, which dalvic isn't one. I think the lack of nio is an annoyance that can be fixed tho.

needusername · on June 30, 2015

> It supports java 7 syntax. Invoke dynamic you mentioned is a jvm feature, which dalvic isn't one.

invokedynamic is a bytecode. Not supporting it means Dalvik / ART can't accept valid bytecode.

> I think the lack of nio is an annoyance that can be fixed tho.

Apparently not. A quick check also suggests that ClassLoader#registerAsParallelCapable is missing.