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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”. The first two posts (1, 2) in this series explored how D8 is responsible for desugaring new Java language features to work on all versions of Android. Desugaring is the more interesting feature to demonstrate, but it’s secondary functionality of D8. The primary responsibility is converting the stack-based Java bytecode into register-based Dalvik...