Android Performance Workshop
In this workshop, attendees will learn how to take advantage of recent work with Gradle and Android to make building Android projects more efficient and effective. The examples will feature the new Android 2.5 plugin, with all the associated improvements, but will also focus on systematic ways to structure your app to make the build faster. We will show how to take advantage of incremental builds, how to use avoidance strategies to reduce the impact of annotation processors, and demonstrate how to use build scans and other profiling techniques to detect bottlenecks in the build process. Finally, we'll show how to avoid the “legacy multi-dex” problem and make your debug-related builds more efficient.
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About Kenneth Kousen
Ken Kousen is a Java Champion, several time JavaOne Rock Star, and a Grails Rock Star. He is the author of the Pragmatic Library books “Mockito Made Clear” and “Help Your Boss Help You,” the O'Reilly books “Kotlin Cookbook”, “Modern Java Recipes”, and “Gradle Recipes for Android”, and the Manning book “Making Java Groovy”. He also has recorded over a dozen video courses for the O'Reilly Learning Platform, covering topics related to Android, Spring, Java, Groovy, Grails, and Gradle.
His academic background include BS degrees in Mechanical Engineering and Mathematics from M.I.T., an MA and Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering from Princeton, and an MS in Computer Science from R.P.I. He is currently President of Kousen IT, Inc., based in Connecticut.
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