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Note: This post is part of a series on D8 and R8, Android’s new dexer and optimizer, respectively. For an intro to D8 read “Android’s Java 8 support”. For an intro to R8 read “R8 Optimization: Staticization”. The previous post in the series covered an R8 flag which allows you to specify the return value range of a field or method. R8 can use this to automatically remove conditionals against SDK_INT based on your app’s minimum supported API level, for example. That can only happen because multi...