That new way of supporting Java 8 was introduced in Preview 4 of the upcoming Android Studio 2.4 revamp and is getting smoothed out in the preview process. "Java 8 language features are now supported ...

Google's Android Studio 3.0 dev environment has just become available in the stable channel, with built-in support for Kotlin and Java 8.

As the official IDE, Android Studio has come along way since its introduction in 2014 and is now a powerful and (mostly) user-friendly interface for building Android apps. Here is an introduction ...