Error Unsupported major.minor version 52.0 after installing VS2015 in W10

Question

After installing VS2015 in W10, and trying to compile a project which works perfectly in W7, I´m getting this error: Unsupported major.minor version 52.0.

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Answer 1

If you have multiple JDKs then remove them. Install JDK 8 the latest version and go to Visual Studio options => Xamrin and set the Java Development Kit Location to the JDK 8 path e.g C:\Java\JDK\jdk1.8.0_92.

Answer 2

Usually this error comes up, when your project compiles/runs against lets say Java 7, while referencing some dependency which is compiled against Java 8 (and uses Java 8 features).
Check your compiler level or your runtime configuration.