Mobile Developer Productivity Panel

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Large orgs report concrete wins: Android teams range from ~95 monthly contributors to 350–400 monthly (600–800 over six months) and monorepos exceed 10M LOC and 10,000 modules. Notable tactics that move metrics are publishing AARs to substitute modules to cut build and sync times by over 50%, provisioning dev pods (Kubernetes snapshots) with 40% monthly Android adoption for fast context switches, heavy IDE/Apple Silicon investment, and early AI tooling where 80% of devs report ≥20% productivity gain.

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1. 0:00Panel introduction
2. 1:27Team structures
3. 8:57Tooling stacks
4. 10:20Measuring productivity
5. 16:45Biggest wins
6. 23:27AI in infrastructure
7. 28:25Remote dev ROI
8. 35:30IDE plugins
9. 41:06Quality vs velocity
10. 47:19Closing remarks

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