What's new in Android Build

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Android Gradle Plugin 8.0 makes concrete changes: the DSL Variant API is stable, test fixtures and improved incremental Kotlin compilation reduce rebuilds, and configuration cache speeds up configuration. Namespace in build.gradle becomes mandatory (enforced from AGP 8 alpha03). BuildConfig, AIDL and Renderscript generation are disabled by default and nontransitive R classes and R8 full mode are now the defaults. The old Transform API removed is replaced by an Instrumentation API (ASM visitors) and an Artifacts API with ModifyClassesTask examples and ~20–30 gradle‑recipes; update plugins (for example Hilt) to compatible versions.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 1:04Variant API is stable
3. 4:53Behavior changes
4. 5:16Package manifest tag
5. 5:42Namespace property
6. 6:15Upgrade Assistant migration
7. 11:26Build Analyzer - Dynamic versions
8. 13:14Instrumentation: Class file manipulation based on ASM

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