[aerogear-dev] AGDroid issues with Java 6

[Matthias Wessendorf]

Cool - android++

I think its good to have a blog post on us getting rid if j6 for android
(and linking to android's statement of saying good bye to j6)

On Tuesday, June 30, 2015, Summers Pittman <supittma at redhat.com> wrote:

> So it seems like at some point Android officially dropped Java 6 support
> as well.
>
> On Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 7:58 AM, Matthias Wessendorf <matzew at apache.org
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','matzew at apache.org');>> wrote:
>
>> +1 on dropping java6 - especially for 2.x and later (of AGDroid)
>>
>> On Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 1:55 PM, Summers Pittman <supittma at redhat.com
>> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','supittma at redhat.com');>> wrote:
>>
>>> Quoth Manfred :
>>> " Java 6 is EOL for a long time now and Java 7 is since April. I would
>>> rather get the build and usage to work with Java 8 rather than worry about
>>> Java 6 at this stage.."
>>>
>>> So do we drop support for Java 6 in AGDroid or do I submit a patch to
>>> the plugin to fix Java 6?  Is there some third option?
>>>
>>> On Mon, Jun 29, 2015 at 7:40 PM, Daniel Passos <dpassos at redhat.com
>>> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','dpassos at redhat.com');>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> In related
>>>> https://github.com/simpligility/android-maven-plugin/issues/647
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Jun 29, 2015 at 7:07 PM, Summers Pittman <supittma at redhat.com
>>>> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','supittma at redhat.com');>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> So I discovered a bug in the android-maven-plugin which makes building
>>>>> projects on JDK 6 fail if they consume AAR dependencies.  I've reported
>>>>> this to the project and have a potential fix in mind.
>>>>>
>>>>> My question to the list is, a) do we want to drop Java 6 support and
>>>>> b) if not are we fine with disabling JDK6 in travis until this gets
>>>>> resolved?
>>>>>
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