Update Compiling for Android JDK version specification #5312
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Does this also mean newer versions of OpenJDK can be used for exporting projects to android? Currently we say to use OpenJDK 8. |
Yes. That needs to be updated too. Thanks for pointing it out. |
This was referenced Oct 10, 2021
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Cherry-picked to the |
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Currently, the Compiling for Android documentation specifies JDK version 8; stating that JDK version 9 or later are not supported. However, this was based on Gradle version 2, which, indeed, did not support JDK version 9 or later. The current version of Gradle used is 6.7.1, which supports JDK 15[1].
JDK 11 is required to upgrade the Android Gradle plug-in to Gradle 7.0. The current OpenJDK and (previous) Oracle LTS JDK version is 11. Therefore, this PR updates the documentation to specify using JDK version 11.
BTW: Oracle has recently (September 2021) released a new LTS: JDK 17[2]) but both OpenJDK and Gradle need to catchup before we can specify this.
[1] https://docs.gradle.org/current/userguide/compatibility.html
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_version_history#Java_17