No more issues with 3rd party servers and installers. You will always have an OpenJDK version that works for Android development.ĭownloading Oracle's JDK 9 or greater won’t affect the development experience. This is a required migration as Oracle is ending support for commercial distribution of JDK 8 in 2019, and JDK 8 is a required dependency for all Android development. Overviewīeginning with Visual Studio 15.9 and Visual Studio for Mac 7.7, Visual Studio Tools for Xamarin has moved from Oracle’s JDK to a lightweight version of the OpenJDK that is intended solely for Android development. This distribution is intended for mobile development. This guide describes the steps for switching to an internal distribution of OpenJDK.
