What’s new in Android Gradle plugin

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AGP 7.0 with Gradle 7.x actually serializes the configuration task graph so configuration caching makes subsequent builds near-instant after a warm-up run; the build system runs more tasks in parallel. Non-transitive R classes shrink and clarify resource usage and improve large-project compile times; the lint task becomes up-to-date and moves toward cacheable CI runs. A variant API exposes property-backed inputs and artifact hooks so task outputs are wired deterministically, and the new ASM/artifacts APIs replace legacy transforms and cut transformation cost substantially on real sample projects.

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1. 0:00Intro
2. 2:17Easier to upgrade
3. 3:52Variant API
4. 9:15ASM API

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