How Not to Grow Old During Compilation: Kapt and Other Adventures

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A case study of reducing build time and coupling in a large monolithic Android project using Gradle and Dagger2. It describes a year-long refactoring and experiments (including changes to Kapt and build configuration) to speed up compilation and lower module interdependence, and presents the final solutions and lessons learned.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 1:06Slow build problem
3. 3:56kapt and annotations
4. 6:27Modular architecture
5. 10:00Gradle Scan tool
6. 14:16Minimal dependencies
7. 25:19Dagger issues
8. 37:23Fake module disabling
9. 41:36Summary and future work
10. 45:56Q&A

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