Making the most of your Gradle Builds

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Gradle performance improves by concrete steps: keep Gradle and the Android Gradle plugin up to date, enable the daemon and parallel execution, and use the build cache to speed even clean builds. Profile with --profile or build scans and run dependency reports (dependencies, dependencyInsight) to find and remove unused plugins and transitive libraries. Drop impossible build variants (he reports ~25% savings), centralize versions in a shared file, use buildConfigField for local secrets, use resConfigs to strip unused locales, and add a shared test source set.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 4:16Quick Improvements: Update Your Gradle
3. 5:01Quick Improvements: The Daemon
4. 7:03Quick Improvements: Parallel Execution
5. 12:23Remove Unused Dependencies

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