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There's no new bytecodes in Java 8. Lambdas will compile down to invokedynamic calls (jdk7)

Which will be fine once Android starts supporting Java 7.

You can compile invokedynamic into reflection pretty easily. Obviously you lose the method call optimization, but you can keep the syntatic sugar.

I would be very surprised if the backports folks didn't offer this within a few months.