我们可以在Android编程中使用Optionals吗？

Question

I have been reading about the Optional type in Java 8. I want to implement in some of my Android code.

But does the Dalvik machine for the latest versions of Android (5.1 and 6) implement everything in Java 8?

I'm still running Java 7 with the Eclipse and Android Studio installed on my computers.

Answer 1

You can use StreamSupport lib which adds support for the new Streams API and as a side effect it has Optional .

For gradle use:

compile "net.sourceforge.streamsupport:streamsupport:1.5.1"

Answer 2

Yes. But only on API level 24 / Nougat (in current time of writing).

For pre-Nougat, you may opt to these libraries:

• Options ( https://github.com/tomaszpolanski/Options )
• Arrow ( https://github.com/android10/arrow )
• StreamSupport ( https://github.com/streamsupport/streamsupport )
• Optional ( https://github.com/MrHadiSatrio/Optional )
• Guava ( https://github.com/google/guava )

Answer 3

I don't think you can do it now or in near future. As you can see in here Android start listing Java 7 as a requirement since Android 5.0 that was released at Nov 2014.
That is 3 years after Java 7 first release, so maybe we can use Java 8 from 2017 ;)

On another note you can use lambda using retrolambda to support lambda in Android dev which is really nice.