Calling RealmInstant.now() in Android 7 (API 25) a...

# realm

[BaBeStudios]

Calling RealmInstant.now() in Android 7 (API 25) and below will fail with the following exception:

Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: Didn't find class "java.time.Clock" on path: DexPathList[[zip file "/data/app/[...]split_config.xxxhdpi.apk!/lib/arm64-v8a, /system/lib64, /vendor/lib64]]
    dalvik.system.BaseDexClassLoader.findClass(BaseDexClassLoader.java:56)
    java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:380)
    java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:312)
    io.realm.kotlin.internal.platform.SystemUtilsKt.currentTime(SystemUtils.kt:32)
    io.realm.kotlin.types.RealmInstant$Companion.now(RealmInstant.kt:87)

Clock was added in API 26 for Android. Is there a way to mitigate this, or is the minimum Android SDK version for the Kotlin SDK effectively API level 26? I'm writing this before looking into replacing RealmInstant or the call to systemUTC(), that causes the Exception.

[Nabil]

Hi, I think this was an oversight, the minSDK is 16. As a work around you could use https://www.mongodb.com/docs/realm-sdks/kotlin/latest/library-base/io.realm.kotlin.types/-realm-instant/-companion/from.html
issue https://github.com/realm/realm-kotlin/issues/1564

[BaBeStudios]

Thanks, I appreciate that. Sure, I couldn't find that information quickly, and I thought it was a quicker way to ask this time.