Is JDK necessary for Android Studio?

The next piece of software for you to install is called Android Studio. This is an official text editor and integrated development environment (IDE) for developing Android apps. You must install Oracle JDK before installing Android Studio , so please don’t start this step until you have completed Step 1 above.

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Does Android use Java 8?

Java 8 has been supported natively since Android SDK 26 . If you wish to use Java 8 language features and your minimal SDK version is lower than 26, . class files produced by the javac compiler need to be converted to bytecode that is supported by these SDK versions.

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