Remove the dependency on java.util.Optional because it requires Android API level 24 #6
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It prevents us from using the Outcome<> type on older Android devices.
There is another Optional type provided by Guava. However using that also complicates our dependencies.
Since providing the result and error as optionals is not essential, I decide to simply remove this and encourage the end user to use
resultOr()
anderrorOrNull()
instead.If you really want optional, it's also easy to achieve with the
match()
function, but I will leave this to the user code as it is easier to know what is available in user code than in the support library.