Improving Gradle Builds

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Walks through benchmarking and fixing a 1,292‑module replica of a production app, showing build scans that break time into initialization configuration and task execution and pointing out an 11‑minute clean build with ~10 minutes in execution. Recommends using Gradle Enterprise for team-wide scans and tags, using Gradle Profiler to automate iterations and detect regressions, and applying plugins like dependency‑analysis, gradle‑doctor and an Android build‑cache plugin plus anvil to reduce annotation processing and improve cacheability.

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1. 0:00Intro
2. 0:21Improving Gradle Builds
3. 1:32Uber Build Eval
4. 3:47Build Scan
5. 9:24Build Tags
6. 11:07Optimizations
7. 12:25AGP Features
8. 13:11Dependency Analysis Plugin
9. 16:12Gradle Doctor Plugin
10. 17:49Disable Remote Caching
11. 18:27Android Build Cache Plugin
12. 19:35Modularization
13. 20:11Module Graph Assert Plugin
14. 26:03Version Catalogs
15. 27:58Gradle Profiler
16. 31:09Performance Scenario
17. 31:46CI Pipeline
18. 32:31Use Cases
19. 32:50Anvil

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