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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Some of the important Java 8 features are;
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