


The JDK 8 is installed in the following locations: The distribution in use is the Adoptium ( ) Temurin Open JDK 8.

It therefore uses a different distribution of the OpenJDK 8 in order to provide its functionality. The Android Designer, a visual designer for Android XML layout files, isn't compatible with the OpenJDK 11. If you’d like to move to the improved experience sooner, builds of the Microsoft Build of OpenJDK are available for you to test on both Windows and Mac at. 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 the Android SDK is moving to JDK 11. 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.īeginning with Visual Studio 17.0 and Visual Studio for Mac 17.0, the Mobile Development workload has moved from OpenJDK 8 to OpenJDK 11. 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 guide describes the steps for switching to a supported distribution of OpenJDK.
