Is it good practice to use JAVA 8 for Android development?

Question

I read the instructions for using Java8 to develop Android from this answer and ( orfjackal / retrolambda ).

I wanted to know if it is good practice to use this method to implement Java 8. Does this affect application performance?

This is mentioned in the blog - retrolambda. This does this by converting your compiled Java 8 bytecode so that it can work in an older Java runtime.

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harsh_v Aug 12 '15 at 11:29

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arodriguezdonaire · Answer 1 · 2015-08-12T12:13:43+0000

I think it's too early to say that using Java 8 is good practice for developing Android, officially the android needs the Java 6 JDK, as mentioned at the bottom of this page: https://developer.android.com/sdk/installing /installing-adt.html

In addition, there are some Android APIs that don’t even support trying with resources, so I don’t think they will support Java 8 at all.