New Android Studio Build System Features and Improvements

New Android Studio Build System Features and Improvements

Explore the latest advancements in the Android Studio build system in this 36-minute conference talk from Google I/O'19. Discover new features and APIs designed to enhance app development efficiency. Gain insights into namespaced resources, multi-threading in AGP, Worker API, lazy task configuration, and incremental annotation processing. Learn about improved sync and apply changes functionalities, as well as internal benchmarks and real-life build speed examples, including a case study from Spotify. Understand the importance of fast configuration and potential caveats. Get acquainted with free tools and learn how to enable Chrome trace for optimized performance analysis.