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[Dan Rusu]

Hi Android community 👋

I'm the developer of Immutable Arrays for Kotlin and I'm hoping to bump the minimum version to JDK 17 in order to upgrade dependencies.

Can Android developers safely use Kotlin libraries that use inline classes & inline functions with Java 17 bytecode and still target older devices? I want to make sure I'm not excluding a large portion of the user-base but I'm not familiar with Android development.

Thanks in advance 🙏

p.s. The next release will reduce temporary memory consumption of some operations by 16X on average. Almost done benchmarking locally before pushing.

[Chrimaeon]

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[Chrimaeon]

Hi Android community 👋🏻

This is Kotlin community 😉

[Dan Rusu]

This is a Kotlin-only library as it doesn't compile when used from Java since it uses things like Inline classes, overload resolution-by-lambda-return-type, etc

[Chrimaeon]

Sure, but your question is not related in any way to Kotlin.

[Dan Rusu]

There's an underlying question that only a Kotlin expert could answer:

Does Kotlin inlining (inline functions and inline classes) affect the answer at all? If there's some sort of compatibility transformation then I'm not sure whether the order of operations can result in incompatible bytecode being inlined.

[Chrimaeon]

Then you should ask in #C7L3JB43G if your question is about the generated bytecode for certain Kotlin types.

[Dan Rusu]

Thanks, I'll ask there. Note that your not kotlin but kotlin colored tag is incorrect

[Chrimaeon]

But delete this one - cross posting to multiple channels is considered spamming 😉

[zsmb]

It's a Kotlin question for Android developers, seems reasonable here in my opinion.

There's also #C8C4JTXR7 which might give you more specific advice.

[Dan Rusu]

I got an answer here:

https://kotlinlang.slack.com/archives/C7L3JB43G/p1760144846213969?thread_ts=1760144846.213969&cid=C7L3JB43G

Leaving this post here in case other people have this question in the future as it's a reasonable question for this channel.