Can we use Optionals in Android programming?

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

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"