'android-24' requires JDK 1.8 or later to compile

Question

I use Android Studio and recently got the error:

Error:Execution failed for task \':app:compileDebugJavaWithJavac\'. compileSdkVersion \'android-24\' re

Answer 1

Just an FYI I had this error with an Ionic project. All the commands came back pointing to the correct JDK and JAVA_HOME was set correctly.

There was an entry in my PATH to JDK 1.7\bin, replacing that with the 1.8\bin fixed it for me.