Using retrolambda in Android application being built using circleci as continuous integration cause some issues:
> Building 10%When running gradle with java 8, you must set the path to the old jdk, either with property retrolambda.oldJdk or environment variable JAVA5_HOME/JAVA6_HOME/JAVA7_HOME
The problem is you have to configure environment variables for Java_Home, Java7_Home, Java6_Home and etc in circleci virtual machine.
this circle.yml file could help you in this regard:
# # Build configuration for Circle CI # general: artifacts: - /home/ubuntu/weather_app/app/build/outputs/apk/ - /usr/lib/jvm/ machine: environment: ANDROID_HOME: /usr/local/android-sdk-linux JAVA6_HOME: /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk-amd64 java: version: openjdk8 dependencies: override: - echo y | sudo apt-get update - echo y | sudo apt-get install libpango-1.0-0 - echo y | sudo apt-get install openjdk-6-jre - echo y | android update sdk --no-ui --all --filter tools,platform-tools,build-tools-23.0.3,android-23,extra-google-m2repository,extra-google-google_play_services,extra-android-support - ANDROID_HOME=/usr/local/android-sdk-linux ./gradlew dependencies test: override: - (./gradlew assemble): timeout: 360 - (./gradlew test): timeout: 360