Can I use Java 8 for Android?

Android does not support Java 8 . It only supports up to Java 7 (if you have kitkat) and still it doesn’t have invokedynamic, only the new syntax sugar. If you want to use lambdas, one of the major features of Java 8 in Android, you can use gradle-retrolamba.

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Is Java 11 still used?

This year, 61.5% of respondents are using Java 11 somewhere in production , and almost 12% are using the latest release, which was Java 15 during the survey. “This is huge, because it shows that developers do upgrade their Java version beyond Java 8 to some extent.

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