diff --git a/tools/layoutlib/create/README.txt b/tools/layoutlib/create/README.txt
index 72fc9329669b7..ef2b185b2e478 100644
--- a/tools/layoutlib/create/README.txt
+++ b/tools/layoutlib/create/README.txt
@@ -169,9 +169,9 @@ This is the easiest: we currently inject the following classes:
   their return value.
 - CreateInfo class, which configured the generator. Not used yet, but could
   in theory help us track what the generator changed.
-- AutoCloseable is part of Java 7. To enable us to still run on Java 6, a new class is
-  injected. The implementation for the class has been taken from Android's libcore
-  (platform/libcore/luni/src/main/java/java/lang/AutoCloseable.java).
+- AutoCloseable and Objects are part of Java 7. To enable us to still run on Java 6, new
+  classes are injected. The implementation for these classes has been taken from
+  Android's libcore (platform/libcore/luni/src/main/java/java/...).
 - Charsets, IntegralToString and UnsafeByteSequence are not part of the standard JAVA VM.
   They are added to the Dalvik VM for performance reasons. An implementation that is very
   close to the original (which is at platform/libcore/luni/src/main/java/...) is injected.
diff --git a/tools/layoutlib/create/src/com/android/tools/layoutlib/create/CreateInfo.java b/tools/layoutlib/create/src/com/android/tools/layoutlib/create/CreateInfo.java
index 75e4480be5777..f6779e38ccfa6 100644
--- a/tools/layoutlib/create/src/com/android/tools/layoutlib/create/CreateInfo.java
+++ b/tools/layoutlib/create/src/com/android/tools/layoutlib/create/CreateInfo.java
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ import com.android.tools.layoutlib.annotations.LayoutlibDelegate;
 import com.android.tools.layoutlib.java.AutoCloseable;
 import com.android.tools.layoutlib.java.Charsets;
 import com.android.tools.layoutlib.java.IntegralToString;
+import com.android.tools.layoutlib.java.Objects;
 import com.android.tools.layoutlib.java.UnsafeByteSequence;
 
 /**
@@ -111,6 +112,7 @@ public final class CreateInfo implements ICreateInfo {
             LayoutlibDelegate.class,
             /* Java package classes */
             AutoCloseable.class,
+            Objects.class,
             IntegralToString.class,
             UnsafeByteSequence.class,
             Charsets.class,
@@ -222,6 +224,7 @@ public final class CreateInfo implements ICreateInfo {
     private final static String[] JAVA_PKG_CLASSES =
         new String[] {
             "java.lang.AutoCloseable",                         "com.android.tools.layoutlib.java.AutoCloseable",
+            "java.util.Objects",                               "com.android.tools.layoutlib.java.Objects",
             "java.nio.charset.Charsets",                       "com.android.tools.layoutlib.java.Charsets",
             "java.lang.IntegralToString",                      "com.android.tools.layoutlib.java.IntegralToString",
             "java.lang.UnsafeByteSequence",                    "com.android.tools.layoutlib.java.UnsafeByteSequence",
diff --git a/tools/layoutlib/create/src/com/android/tools/layoutlib/java/Objects.java b/tools/layoutlib/create/src/com/android/tools/layoutlib/java/Objects.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..eb1ef727dea72
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/layoutlib/create/src/com/android/tools/layoutlib/java/Objects.java
@@ -0,0 +1,132 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright (C) 2013 The Android Open Source Project
+ *
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+package com.android.tools.layoutlib.java;
+
+import java.util.Arrays;
+import java.util.Comparator;
+
+/**
+ * Defines the same class as the java.util.Objects which is added in Java 7.
+ * This hack makes it possible to run the Android code which uses Java 7 features
+ * (API 18 and beyond) to run on Java 6.
+ * <p/>
+ * Extracted from API level 19, file:
+ * platform/libcore/luni/src/main/java/java/util/Objects.java
+ */
+public final class Objects {
+  private Objects() {}
+
+  /**
+   * Returns 0 if {@code a == b}, or {@code c.compare(a, b)} otherwise.
+   * That is, this makes {@code c} null-safe.
+   */
+  public static <T> int compare(T a, T b, Comparator<? super T> c) {
+    if (a == b) {
+      return 0;
+    }
+    return c.compare(a, b);
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Returns true if both arguments are null,
+   * the result of {@link Arrays#equals} if both arguments are primitive arrays,
+   * the result of {@link Arrays#deepEquals} if both arguments are arrays of reference types,
+   * and the result of {@link #equals} otherwise.
+   */
+  public static boolean deepEquals(Object a, Object b) {
+    if (a == null || b == null) {
+      return a == b;
+    } else if (a instanceof Object[] && b instanceof Object[]) {
+      return Arrays.deepEquals((Object[]) a, (Object[]) b);
+    } else if (a instanceof boolean[] && b instanceof boolean[]) {
+      return Arrays.equals((boolean[]) a, (boolean[]) b);
+    } else if (a instanceof byte[] && b instanceof byte[]) {
+      return Arrays.equals((byte[]) a, (byte[]) b);
+    } else if (a instanceof char[] && b instanceof char[]) {
+      return Arrays.equals((char[]) a, (char[]) b);
+    } else if (a instanceof double[] && b instanceof double[]) {
+      return Arrays.equals((double[]) a, (double[]) b);
+    } else if (a instanceof float[] && b instanceof float[]) {
+      return Arrays.equals((float[]) a, (float[]) b);
+    } else if (a instanceof int[] && b instanceof int[]) {
+      return Arrays.equals((int[]) a, (int[]) b);
+    } else if (a instanceof long[] && b instanceof long[]) {
+      return Arrays.equals((long[]) a, (long[]) b);
+    } else if (a instanceof short[] && b instanceof short[]) {
+      return Arrays.equals((short[]) a, (short[]) b);
+    }
+    return a.equals(b);
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Null-safe equivalent of {@code a.equals(b)}.
+   */
+  public static boolean equals(Object a, Object b) {
+    return (a == null) ? (b == null) : a.equals(b);
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Convenience wrapper for {@link Arrays#hashCode}, adding varargs.
+   * This can be used to compute a hash code for an object's fields as follows:
+   * {@code Objects.hash(a, b, c)}.
+   */
+  public static int hash(Object... values) {
+    return Arrays.hashCode(values);
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Returns 0 for null or {@code o.hashCode()}.
+   */
+  public static int hashCode(Object o) {
+    return (o == null) ? 0 : o.hashCode();
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Returns {@code o} if non-null, or throws {@code NullPointerException}.
+   */
+  public static <T> T requireNonNull(T o) {
+    if (o == null) {
+      throw new NullPointerException();
+    }
+    return o;
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Returns {@code o} if non-null, or throws {@code NullPointerException}
+   * with the given detail message.
+   */
+  public static <T> T requireNonNull(T o, String message) {
+    if (o == null) {
+      throw new NullPointerException(message);
+    }
+    return o;
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Returns "null" for null or {@code o.toString()}.
+   */
+  public static String toString(Object o) {
+    return (o == null) ? "null" : o.toString();
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Returns {@code nullString} for null or {@code o.toString()}.
+   */
+  public static String toString(Object o, String nullString) {
+    return (o == null) ? nullString : o.toString();
+  }
+}
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