Enable Java 8 compatibility for Kotlin sources
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Enabling Java 8 compatibility via the compileOptions
block only works for Java sources. To do the same for Kotlin you need to use kotlinOptions
on any KotlinCompile Gradle tasks. Interesting…
For Kotlin
tasks.withType(org.jetbrains.kotlin.gradle.tasks.KotlinCompile).all {
kotlinOptions {
jvmTarget = JavaVersion.VERSION_1_8
}
}
For Java
android {
compileOptions {
sourceCompatibility JavaVersion.VERSION_1_8
targetCompatibility JavaVersion.VERSION_1_8
}
}
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