Improving Android Build Performance by Cédric Champeau

Subscribe to Devoxx on YouTube @ https://bit.ly/devoxx-youtube
Like Devoxx on Facebook @ https://www.facebook.com/devoxxcom
Follow Devoxx on Twitter @ https://twitter.com/devoxx

We all know a fast build makes for a happy developer. Unfortunately, as your project grows larger and more complex, its build will become slower if left unchecked. You’ve updated to the latest Android Plugin, but you’re still waiting more than you like, what can you do? Recent Gradle releases give you new capabilities to greatly improve your build speed. This session discusses how you can :

Identify performance bottlenecks with build scans
Fix common problems, like slow configuration time, tasks running when they shouldn’t, and builds that don’t parallelize well
Benefit from incremental annotation processing

Cédric Champeau
From Gradle, Inc
Cédric Champeau is a software engineer at Gradle, Inc. , where he is currently focused on implementing next generation dependency management features. He also worked on improving the performance of the build tool. He is committer of Apache Groovy and spent more than 3 years developing full time the language at Pivotal, where he implemented features like the static compiler, traits, Android support, AST transformations or type checking extensions.

Prior to that, he spent several years in the industry as a user, where he used Groovy in multiple industrial contexts including DSLs for natural language processing, scripting or even workflows.