Re: Cordova-Android 7.0: Upgrading Java Requirement to 7.0

2017-06-29 Thread kerrishotts
+1 Sent from my phone. ___ Kerri > On Jun 29, 2017, at 13:34, Joe Bowser wrote: > > Hey > > I think we should accept this PR to attract newer developers. Sure, we > could adopt Java 8, but I think being stuck with Java 6 may be limiting >

Re: Cordova-Android 7.0: Upgrading Java Requirement to 7.0

2017-06-29 Thread Jesse
+1 @purplecabbage risingj.com On Thu, Jun 29, 2017 at 12:34 PM, Simon MacDonald wrote: > +1 > > As per: https://developer.android.com/guide/platform/j8-jack.html > > We can keep the source and target versions set to 1.7 and still use the > subset of new Java 8

Re: Cordova-Android 7.0: Upgrading Java Requirement to 7.0

2017-06-29 Thread Simon MacDonald
+1 As per: https://developer.android.com/guide/platform/j8-jack.html We can keep the source and target versions set to 1.7 and still use the subset of new Java 8 features if uses compile using JDK 8. Perhaps the readme should be updated to require JDK 8? Simon Mac Donald

Re: Cordova-Android 7.0: Upgrading Java Requirement to 7.0

2017-06-29 Thread julio cesar sanchez
+1 El 29 jun. 2017 8:34 p. m., "Joe Bowser" escribió: > Hey > > I think we should accept this PR to attract newer developers. Sure, we > could adopt Java 8, but I think being stuck with Java 6 may be limiting > contributions. Does anyone have any thoughts on this? > >

Cordova-Android 7.0: Upgrading Java Requirement to 7.0

2017-06-29 Thread Joe Bowser
Hey I think we should accept this PR to attract newer developers. Sure, we could adopt Java 8, but I think being stuck with Java 6 may be limiting contributions. Does anyone have any thoughts on this? https://github.com/apache/cordova-android/pull/380