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5 ways to improve your Android build productivity

Talkat droidcon Berlin 2022 · 2022-07-06..07-08· [android, developer-experience]
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Five concrete fixes: keep Android Gradle Plugin and Gradle up to date (AGP 7 replaces compile with implementation), enable configuration cache in gradle.properties to reuse config data, centralize versions in a version catalog (libs.versions.toml) instead of dynamic + or * stars, disable Jetifier once no support libraries remain, create a dev flavor with resConfigs, avoid buildConfig generation and mixed Java/Kotlin, and move build logic into composite builds with convention plugins via includeBuild — yields noticeably fewer rebuilds and faster parallel/incremental builds.

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  1. 0:00Introduction to build productivity
  2. 1:08Update tools and dependencies
  3. 7:49Use version catalogs
  4. 11:00Avoid unnecessary build work
  5. 22:36Manage complex build files
  6. 31:24Additional resources and Q&A
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