Building the Android Plugin

The Android SDK will soon use Gradle as its default build system. The new build system is not just a rewrite of the older build system based on Ant. Instead it has been completely rethought to provide extensive features and extensibility for app developers needing it.

In this session, we'll cover how the Android plugin was designed and how it models complex project structures that represent Android applications and libraries. We'll talk about the challenges of modeling the Android domain, of implementing the plugin and how it's pushing the limits of Gradle. We'll also cover the work done to integrate into IDEs to make Gradle the one build system for Android, from IDE to CI servers.

About Xavier Ducrohet

Xavier joined Google in 2007 to work on Android.

He’s now the lead for the SDK and Developer Tools for Android, leading the effort to unify Android apps around a single Gradle-based build system, deeply integrated with Android Studio, an IntelliJ-based IDE for Android.

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