do I understand it right? kotlin is compiled in by...

# android

[mingkangpan]

do I understand it right? kotlin is compiled in byte code it is not dependent on the java features version, so in theory kotlin can implement all java 8 features and we android devs can use them?

[miha-x64]

mingkangpan: Kotlin compiles to Java 6 bytecode. But if you use Java 8 features (e. g. streams), the code must be executed in environment which supports them.

[mingkangpan]

so android currently doesnt support java 8 features, so I can't use them, but can kotlin compiles java 8 features to java 6 bytecode?

[miha-x64]

Differ features and bytecode. Kotlin compiles to Java 6 bytecode. Used features (required Java stdlib version) depends on your code.

[mingkangpan]

shit, so even if google adopt kotlin as offical language, it is still depend on java stdlib means still depend on oracle?

[s.luhmirins]

google version of java is not dependant on oracle

[miha-x64]

Half of Android depends on Java’s stdlib and does not depend on Oracle.

[s.luhmirins]

google is reimplementing java apis

[mingkangpan]

so why still the lawsuit between google and oracle?

[bernhard]

exactly because they are using api's "owned" my oracle (that's at least the opinion of oracle) and android/google has no licence for these api's, which they are implementing on their own

[bernhard]

because google has the opinion, that these apis are open source and free to use and need no license