Change the default for LOCAL_JAVA_LANGUAGE_VERSION from 1.7 to 1.8
Modify the compiler flags for Jack and javac.
This has the following effects:
1) Generally, some of the type inference rules changed.
2) javac: bytecode is generated with the v52 major version (not v51)
3) jack: Java 8 language features are supported.
The javac / dx toolchain does not support Java 8 language features.
Bug: 26753820
Change-Id: Icf619f601def30600a42a70815fc8cc754eafa8a
diff --git a/core/java_common.mk b/core/java_common.mk
index 08e5ee7..1ec2f79 100644
--- a/core/java_common.mk
+++ b/core/java_common.mk
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
## Java version
###########################################################
ifeq (,$(LOCAL_JAVA_LANGUAGE_VERSION))
- LOCAL_JAVA_LANGUAGE_VERSION := 1.7
+ LOCAL_JAVA_LANGUAGE_VERSION := 1.8
endif
LOCAL_JAVACFLAGS += -source $(LOCAL_JAVA_LANGUAGE_VERSION) -target $(LOCAL_JAVA_LANGUAGE_VERSION)