JDK 7 Support in the Android SDK?

[Mark Murphy]

I am still catching up with the Google I|O conference videos. I just
watched the Android Fireside Chat one. The question came up regarding
JDK 7 support, and, if I understood correctly, Xav indicated that such
support already existed, as of R21 (or R21.0.2 or something like that
-- tough to hear that bit when watching the video on a plane...).

Did I understand that correctly?

If yes, are there any SDK/ADT-specific instructions for getting this
to work? Or should it work "out of the box", assuming that JDK7 itself
is properly configured on the development machine and within Eclipse?

Is this something you want people using? I ask because the SDK
requirements list still cites JDK 6. I know that there have been
unofficial ways of getting JDK 7 to work for a bit now, but I've been
waiting on advising people to consider it until it was officially
blessed by The Powers That Be on the tools team.

Thanks!

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[Jonathan Steele]

Fascinating post. I couldn't hear much on that video over poor laptop speakers.

https://android.googlesource.com/platform/libcore/+/master/luni/src/main/java/java/lang/AutoCloseable.java, this file used to have @hide

[Joe Bowbeer]

I've been using JDK7 to build Android apps via Ant and Eclipse since April of last year:

https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=19567#c23

The last hitch was signing release builds, which required an enhancement in Ant 1.8.3 and a corresponding change in Android tools that was released last July.

[Xavier Ducrohet]

I think we still say 6 as a minimum, but yes you can use 7. Signing issues have been fixed, and I think that was the last thing that really remained. as Joe said below we actually fixed this last year for Ant which was still using Jarsigner (JDK7 changed the default signing algorithm so this broke signing from Ant).

With 22 we moved away from Jarsigner anyway.

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[Mark Murphy]

On Sun, May 26, 2013 at 2:33 PM, Xavier Ducrohet <x...@android.com> wrote:
> I think we still say 6 as a minimum, but yes you can use 7.

OK, I'll get on that.

Thanks!

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[Giuseppe]

When try to use the 1.7 with ADT 22 still get : Description Android requires compiler compliance level 5.0 or 6.0. Found '1.7' instead. Please use Android Tools > Fix Project Properties

[Xavier Ducrohet]

That is normal. while you can use JDK 7 to run your host Java tools, you still need to compile for Java6. There has been no changes on the Android platform side.

On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 3:49 AM, Giuseppe <porcelli...@gmail.com> wrote:

When try to use the 1.7 with ADT 22 still get : Description Android requires compiler compliance level 5.0 or 6.0. Found '1.7' instead. Please use Android Tools > Fix Project Properties

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[Giuseppe Porcelli]

Thank you very much.

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[Yuku Sugianto]

But I wonder, how, then, IntelliJ 12 can run Android projects with the project's language level set to 7?

Best regards,
Yuku