droidcon SF 2017 - Make Your Build Great Again

Jared Burrows, Microsoft

Slow builds have been plaguing Android development since the very beginning, especially for large multi-dex projects. As libraries tend to grow in size and the more libraries an application consumes it will slow down the build, especially when an application goes over the mutli-dex limit. Libraries aren't the only thing that can slow down the build, adding many Gradle plugins and repositories can increase the time it takes to configure the Gradle build. This talk will be centered around how I was able to decrease Yammer for Android's Gradle build times by optimizing our use of the Android Gradle plugin and the Gradle setup of our multi-project build and will give several tools and tips on how to help you profile and decrease your build times as well.

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droidcon SF is an event where the American and International Android development community comes together to share what’s new in Android and what they’ve been working on. Our goal is to serve the community and move the Android platform forward.

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droidcon is the largest global network of developer conferences which bring together the industry's foremost experts dedicated to advancing the Android platform. droidcon engages a global network of over 25,000 developers attending our events in 26 countries.

[vlastos]

Arent all those gradle daemon, parallel, incremental settings on by default anyways?

[PascalHartig]

Stop using slogans that are used to push fascist agendas in an ironic way. It's not funny anymore.