Make The Android Gradle Plugin Work For You
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Claim: upgrading to recent Android Studio and Android Gradle Plugin versions actually speeds development — average build time falls from 12.5s to 9.5s (~25%) and deploy times drop ~50%. The plugin now makes the top 10 annotation processors incremental annotation processors so single non‑incremental APs no longer force full recompiles, adds feature-on-feature dependencies for app bundles to avoid duplicated downloads, and revamps resources with light R classes, compile‑time and namespaced R handling plus precompiled resources. New tooling: Kotlin DSL support, Java‑8 desugaring, a build‑attribution profiler (<1% overhead) and Chrome‑trace native build output.
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chapters (13)
- 0:00Welcome and team intro
- 1:48Staying up to date matters
- 2:54Project Marble and build speed gains
- 3:58Incremental annotation processors
- 6:07App bundles and dynamic delivery
- 8:34Resource pipeline improvements
- 16:08Kotlin DSL and Java 8 desugaring
- 18:37New Gradle APIs for plugins
- 21:03Build attribution tool introduction
- 23:51Live demo of build attribution
- 31:44Native build attribution
- 34:13Summary and call to action
- 35:45Q&A session
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