Wednesday, March 9, 2016

Android N Feature Spotlight: Jack Compiler Gains Support For Many Java 8 Language Features Including Lambdas, Streams, Functional Interfaces, And More

Developers have plenty of great new APIs and features coming with Android N, but perhaps the best thing to look forward to is at the language level itself. Starting with the preview SDK due out today, some of the language features of Java 8 will be supported by the Jack compiler. This will bring things like support for lambdas, default and static methods, streams, and functional interfaces. Google is also declaring that the Jack compiler will also be able to remain more up-to-date with Java language features in the future.

Android N Feature Spotlight: Jack Compiler Gains Support For Many Java 8 Language Features Including Lambdas, Streams, Functional Interfaces, And More was written by the awesome team at Android Police.