What jvm does everyone target their kotlin android...
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Ben Butterworth
08/21/2020, 2:55 PMWhat jvm does everyone target their kotlin android apps to
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Zach Klippenstein (he/him) [MOD]
08/21/2020, 4:28 PM1.8 for all new stuff, along with min sdk of 21.
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Ben Butterworth
08/21/2020, 4:30 PMThe Kotlin compiler supports the JVM 9, 10, 11, and 12 bytecode versions as target since Kotlin 1.3.30
The advantage is that you will automatically benefit from additional bytecode optimizations in future versions of the Kotlin compilerhttps://stackoverflow.com/questions/52888341/does-kotlin-support-java-11
Ben Butterworth
08/21/2020, 4:31 PMI was doing the same, just left it at 1.8. Wanted to see if people knew about these “optimizations”
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Zach Klippenstein (he/him) [MOD]
08/21/2020, 4:33 PMDoes R8 support those bytecode levels already? I think Jake gave a talk on this recently…
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08/21/2020, 4:34 PMb
Ben Butterworth
08/21/2020, 5:11 PMI dont think this talk has anything to do with R8, can you elaborate. I watched the first 5 minutes
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Zach Klippenstein (he/him) [MOD]
08/21/2020, 5:15 PMI watched it a few months ago, but I thought he did talk about R8
Zach Klippenstein (he/him) [MOD]
08/21/2020, 5:17 PMthis page mentions desugaring of _API_s above 8, but nothing about bytecode: https://developer.android.com/studio/write/java8-support
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Ben Butterworth
08/22/2020, 10:45 AMOk i tried to compile to JDK14 and JDK13 and it failed. R8 only supports up to JDK12
Ben Butterworth
08/22/2020, 10:48 AMOh wait, jdk12 doesnt work either.