From cdbb9992dcbb756f7dff1537319428e1d0a4118e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Steven Toribio <34755817+turbotoribio@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2023 10:22:29 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] wow (#8158)

---
 java/src/main/java/com/google/flatbuffers/Utf8Old.java | 9 ++++++++-
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/java/src/main/java/com/google/flatbuffers/Utf8Old.java b/java/src/main/java/com/google/flatbuffers/Utf8Old.java
index 3dac714bb67..c568105a01c 100644
--- a/java/src/main/java/com/google/flatbuffers/Utf8Old.java
+++ b/java/src/main/java/com/google/flatbuffers/Utf8Old.java
@@ -42,8 +42,15 @@ private static class Cache {
     }
   }
 
+  // ThreadLocal.withInitial() is not used to make the following code compatible with Android API
+  // level 23.
   private static final ThreadLocal<Cache> CACHE =
-      ThreadLocal.withInitial(() -> new Cache());
+      new ThreadLocal<Cache>() {
+        @Override
+        protected Cache initialValue() {
+          return new Cache();
+        }
+      };
 
   // Play some games so that the old encoder doesn't pay twice for computing
   // the length of the encoded string.