diff --git a/tools/layoutlib/Android.mk b/tools/layoutlib/Android.mk
index 663e1e25e6039..f87f6c53c8dca 100644
--- a/tools/layoutlib/Android.mk
+++ b/tools/layoutlib/Android.mk
@@ -16,8 +16,6 @@
 LOCAL_PATH := $(my-dir)
 include $(CLEAR_VARS)
 
-LOCAL_JAVA_LANGUAGE_VERSION := 1.8
-
 #
 # Define rules to build temp_layoutlib.jar, which contains a subset of
 # the classes in framework.jar.  The layoutlib_create tool is used to
diff --git a/tools/layoutlib/bridge/Android.mk b/tools/layoutlib/bridge/Android.mk
index 16e5913ab81de..3dd8002bcff5e 100644
--- a/tools/layoutlib/bridge/Android.mk
+++ b/tools/layoutlib/bridge/Android.mk
@@ -18,7 +18,6 @@ include $(CLEAR_VARS)
 
 LOCAL_SRC_FILES := $(call all-java-files-under,src)
 LOCAL_JAVA_RESOURCE_DIRS := resources
-LOCAL_JAVA_LANGUAGE_VERSION := 1.8
 
 LOCAL_JAVA_LIBRARIES := \
 	layoutlib_api-prebuilt \
diff --git a/tools/layoutlib/bridge/tests/Android.mk b/tools/layoutlib/bridge/tests/Android.mk
index 5c062d0c7042c..8a81d0b684dbb 100644
--- a/tools/layoutlib/bridge/tests/Android.mk
+++ b/tools/layoutlib/bridge/tests/Android.mk
@@ -16,8 +16,6 @@ LOCAL_PATH := $(call my-dir)
 
 include $(CLEAR_VARS)
 
-LOCAL_JAVA_LANGUAGE_VERSION := 1.8
-
 # Only compile source java files in this lib.
 LOCAL_SRC_FILES := $(call all-java-files-under, src)
 LOCAL_JAVA_RESOURCE_DIRS := res
diff --git a/tools/layoutlib/create/Android.mk b/tools/layoutlib/create/Android.mk
index 47377ae42d01f..c7f2c41376874 100644
--- a/tools/layoutlib/create/Android.mk
+++ b/tools/layoutlib/create/Android.mk
@@ -16,8 +16,6 @@
 LOCAL_PATH := $(call my-dir)
 include $(CLEAR_VARS)
 
-LOCAL_JAVA_LANGUAGE_VERSION := 1.8
-
 LOCAL_SRC_FILES := $(call all-java-files-under,src)
 
 LOCAL_JAR_MANIFEST := manifest.txt
diff --git a/tools/layoutlib/create/tests/Android.mk b/tools/layoutlib/create/tests/Android.mk
index c59528e81ef2b..dafb9c6f94022 100644
--- a/tools/layoutlib/create/tests/Android.mk
+++ b/tools/layoutlib/create/tests/Android.mk
@@ -15,8 +15,6 @@
 LOCAL_PATH := $(call my-dir)
 include $(CLEAR_VARS)
 
-LOCAL_JAVA_LANGUAGE_VERSION := 1.8
-
 # Only compile source java files in this lib.
 LOCAL_SRC_FILES := $(call all-java-files-under, com)