Build times breaking your flow? Learn how to speed them up!

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Gradle scalability for Android builds, focusing on reducing build times in both the IDE and CI by avoiding unnecessary work and using parallelism. Covers concrete Gradle features and efforts: delivered improvements like Configuration Cache, work-in-progress such as Isolated Projects, and planned future optimizations, plus practical advice to improve current build performance and prepare projects to take advantage of upcoming changes.

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1. 0:00Gradle introduction
2. 1:45Gradle vs Android plugin
3. 11:11Measuring build performance
4. 13:18Gradle scalability
5. 15:46Slow vs optimized build
6. 23:50Dev loop demo
7. 28:06ABI changes impact
8. 31:16Existing speed features
9. 37:32Upcoming features
10. 42:37Gradle 9 features
11. 46:29Q&A

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