How does JDK 7's support termination affect Android development

Question

Oracle has announced that they stop the official updates for JRE 7 and JDK 7.

As much as I know, Google doesn\'t say anything about JDK 8, I guess the recom

Answer 1

The Google Android development page and, from there, the pre-requisites page list JDK7 as a requirement.

This has nothing to do with Oracle's JRE since the code made during Android development is never meant to run on that JRE - it's supposed to be turned into Dalvik bytecode and run under Android.

So the security concerns of Oracle's JRE are not really at issue here. Google supports JDK7 (insomuch as it pertains to Android development) so that's what you should be using, pending a clear statement of intent from Google.