Improving Android Developer Experience with Gradle Build Scans

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Shows how Gradle Build Scans (free at scans.gradle.com) captures full console logs, environment and dependency graphs so CI failures no longer need 20 questions; demos show a real build with 0% cache hits, 29,000 tasks, 1,600 cacheable tasks and 949 modules and a 28‑minute garbage‑collection hotspot. New visibility for artifact transforms (requires Gradle 8.1+/Enterprise 2023.1+) surfaces transform durations, predecessors and failures and helps pinpoint slow lint, dependency resolution, cache misses and configuration-time bottlenecks.

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1. 0:00Introduction to Gradle Build Scans
2. 1:05What are Gradle Build Scans
3. 7:05Live demo troubleshooting
4. 19:28Build performance analysis
5. 29:48Artifact transforms deep dive
6. 34:24Resources and next steps

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