Long-term viability of akka on android

[Tim Pigden]

Hi

For some time we've been working with Akka on android. It's been a bit of a struggle because of proguard and so on - but it's just about viable and allows us to run common code between server and android.

However, the roadmap blog http://typesafe.com/blog/akka-roadmap-update-2014 says that Java 8 (reasonably) is the platform required post 2.4.

Now it may be possible to work around these things in the future but at the moment I'm looking at an already tenuous "community supported" toolset to get anything to work and I'm worried that with post 2.4 this will remain a constant battle which our small company cannot afford to fight.

Is there any Typesafe commitment to support Akka on Android or is this just not a target? In the latter case, it may make sense for us to cut our losses and code Android stuff in straight Java. This is a critical question for us.

Tim

[Akka Team]

Hi Tim,

Android is not our target platforms since we mostly target server-side. That said, Akka 2.4 will be still happy with Java 6 and it is our intended long term support release. It will be probably quite a bit of time while Akka 3 comes out and Java 8 will be required, but 2.4 will be around that time, too.

-Endre

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[Tim Pigden]

Endre,

Thanks for the reply.

What is "long term"? A year, 2 years, more?

Will 2.4.x track corresponding 2.11 releases?

It's useful to know if I've got at least 2 years of a common solution.

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[Roland Kuhn]

Hi Tim,

we usually provide public updates for a major series (like 2.4.x) until we have released the next major series (possibly 3.0, numbering not decided yet). Our commercial offering covers maintenance releases and bugfixes for longer time periods, I’ll ask someone to get back to you with more details. And whether JDK8 will be problematic on Android at the time when this runs out is not yet certain.

All 2.4.x releases will be available for Scala 2.11, just like 2.3.x is released for 2.10 (and 2.11 since that became available).

While Endre is right that Android is not currently targeted directly it is also not set in stone that things must stay this way—we have shown that we do listen to the demand and problems of our community and of course we listen carefully to our customers.

Regards,

Roland

Dr. Roland Kuhn
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