[aerogear-dev] Android and JDK 1.6

[Karel Piwko]

The more stuff we can get running on JDK 1.6, the better. However, there is no
reason to ride roughshod over functionality we *need* available only in JDK7
but such cases must be known, documented and should not be cluttering usage
experience.

If that helps, I can create AEROGEAR jira to add animal-sniffer-plugin [1] to
aerogear-parent to ensure projects are using API JDK of a specific version
(configurable per project) and send PR.

Karel

[1] http://mojo.codehaus.org/animal-sniffer-maven-plugin/usage.html

On Tue, 07 Jan 2014 09:17:48 -0500
Summers Pittman <supittma at redhat.com> wrote:

> Karel brought up the fact that the Android project relies on classes 
> from Java 7.  I would like for the Android project to compile using JDK 
> 6, but I was wondering what the rest of the project thought.
> 
> For a little back story, until recently the dexer (Android Java byte 
> code to Dex byte code compiler) could only consume Java 6 byte code.  
> That was very recently fixed and almost all Java 7 features are 
> supported on Android version greater than Gingerbread.  The exception is 
> try with resources which is only supported on KitKat.
> 
> I havn't looked at the project yet to even get an idea for how much work 
> it would be, but I suspect it will be rather minimal.
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