
Episode 144: Compilers
Android Developers Backstage
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Android Development
We turn an interface call into a normal virtual method call. We actually do synthesize rules based on your minest decay for this wrinker. So if you're using the support library in your app, there are all of these checks in the support library that say if you're on a device with minest decay lower than 14 then you need to do this stuff. Now, if your minest Decay is 15, then you're clearly not running a device that's min API below 14 because it's always at least 15. And we actually generate rules for R8 so that R8 knows that the SDK version, that runtime check, that that will return the number 15. The only thing
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