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I'm glad to hear this works well, as I was doubtful of adding another layer of complexity (I'm not using an IDE). I just started learning the Android API and working on an app idea, and I was really surprised when a lambda expression I used failed to compile. I was even more surprised when it wasn't just a configuration problem on my end.

I'm going to try this out.

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The tricky part was the integration really. We're using Eclipse (our project is getting kinda old), and we can deploy to a PC or device.

We use Gradle to do our real builds; CI and to devices at our desks. And we just use Eclipse set up to run with Java 8 for everything else. Once it's setup, it's pretty seamless, we haven't had to think about it for a long time.

> Once it's setup

Always a catch.

It was painless for me. Literally, just added

    plugins {
        id "me.tatarka.retrolambda" version "3.1.0"
    }

to the top of my gradle.build "mobile" module file. JCenter worked, although the README said to use Maven.

Probably more complex using an IDE (rather than pure gradle).

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