IMPROVING ANDROID BUILD PERFORMANCE

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Shows how to find and fix the real slow spots: run build scans and the Gradle profiler to see configuration vs execution time, GC, and per-plugin costs; flag rules like >10 ms configuration per project, examples of 30 s config for 50 projects and builds with 400 variants. Fixes include deferring dependency resolution to execution, removing Crashlytics’ debug timestamp that forces full rebuilds, using the Gradle Build Cache (300 downstream builds pull cached artifacts), enabling -Dorg.gradle.parallel, and opting processors into Gradle 4.7 incremental annotation processing.

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1. 0:00Introduction to build performance
2. 2:10Tools and profiling process
3. 9:19Configuration time issues
4. 16:47Execution time bottlenecks
5. 23:28Build caching and parallelism
6. 26:47Monitoring and long-term tracking
7. 30:24Resources and closing

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