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Deprecated Java 8 warnings

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Assessment

Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
42/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
android, flutter, java

Research direction

Start by running an Android debug example from any plugin and inspect the Android build configuration that produces the Java 8 source and target warnings. Update the affected first-party plugin configurations for Java 11, then verify that plugin examples no longer print these warnings.

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Description

Java 8 was deprecated with the release of Android Studio Ladybug, and is set to be removed in an upcoming version.

All Flutter's 1st party plugins have migrated to Java 11 now.

Reproduce Steps

Steps to reproduce the behavior:

  1. Run any example of any plugin on Android in debug mode
  2. See warnings:
    warning: [options] source value 8 is obsolete and will be removed in a future release
    warning: [options] target value 8 is obsolete and will be removed in a future release
    

Expected behavior

No warnings should be printed.

Version (please complete the following information):

  • Flutter Version: 3.29.3
  • OS: Android
  • plugin: All plugins
Dominant language
C
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Avg merge
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Merged PRs (30d)
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