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I Audited Google’s “Now in Android” Build Architecture (Here is what I found)

DEV Community·Vikas Soni·6 months ago
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The Black Box of Gradle Builds As Android applications grow, they inevitably turn into deeply nested, multi-module mazes. You start with a clean architecture, but fast forward 6 months, and you are staring at a 5-minute build time, wondering where it all went wrong.

Is it a circular dependency? Is a rogue module breaking the Configuration Cache? Are we still running KAPT when we don’t need to?

For a long time, answering these questions required digging through Gradle build scans and manually tracking build.gradle files. Web developers have had "Google Lighthouse" for years to instantly audit their site’s health.…

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