A modified version of lombok ast that allows lint to run on java 8 sources without error.

All you have to do is modify you build.gradle as such

buildscript {
    repositories {
        jcenter()
        ...
    }

    dependencies {
        classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:<version>'
        classpath "me.tatarka:gradle-retrolambda:<version>"
        classpath 'me.tatarka.retrolambda.projectlombok:lombok.ast:0.2.3.a2'
    }

    // Exclude the version that the android plugin depends on.
    configurations.classpath.exclude group: 'com.android.tools.external.lombok'
}

Lint doesn't realize that try-with-resources are backported by retrolambda. You can ignore just that while keeping the rest of the NewApi lint check by adding the following to your lint.xml.

<issue id="NewApi">
    <ignore regexp="Try-with-resources requires API level 19"/>
</issue>

• Currently you must run gradle with java 8. This may or may not be fixed in the future depending on if I can get lombok to compile with a lower java version.