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For a greenfield Kotlin-Android project, what Java version should I be targeting? Currently I’m using 11 but I’m wondering if there’s any benefit to later versions? Thanks for any advice.

I guess you should still use 1.8 as your target version. Android does not run on a Java VM but on Dalvik. <https://developer.android.com/studio/write/java8-support#kts|https://developer.android.com/studio/write/java8-support#kts>

It's incorrect, d8 supports even newer versions of target JVM, not all API, but it is also true for 1.8

I think you should target 11, and later migrate on 17, when it will be officially supported

<https://developer.android.com/studio/releases/gradle-plugin?utm_source=android-studio-2020-3-1&amp;utm_medium=studio-assistant-stable#java-11|https://developer.android.com/studio/releases/gradle-plugin?utm_source=android-studio-2020-3-1&amp;utm_medium=studio-assistant-stable#java-11>

Even newer versions are fine, at least Java 16 works fine for me.
But again, for Kotlin project it's not so much a problem