[Android Tips] 22. Available Java 7 Features in Android

This only allows Java 7 language features, and you can hardly benefit from anything since a half of improvement also comes from the library. Features you could use are those which do not depend on the library:

• Diamond operator <>
• String switch
• Multiple-catch catch (Exc1 | Exc2 e)
• Underscore in number literals 1_234_567
• Binary literals 0b1110111

And these features cannot be used yet:

• The try-with-resources statement — because it requires the non-existing interface java.lang.AutoCloseable (this can be used publicly in 4.4+)
• The @SafeVarargs annotation — because java.lang.SafeVarargs does not exist