Making the Elephant Run: Fast Gradle Builds for Android - Gaurav Thakkar | droidcon india 2025
🎤 Talk: Making the Elephant Run: Blazing Fast Gradle Builds for Android
👤 Speaker: Gaurav Thakkar
📍 Event: droidcon India 2025
📅 Date: December 13th, 2025
(Unfortunately we had to reupload due to audio issues)
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Through this talk, my aim is to share the following
Common Mistakes People Make that Slows Down their Gradle Builds
Latest in Gradle: Configuration Cache, Parallel Configuration Cache, support/enhancements for the latest JVM
Gradle's Kotlin DSL vs Groovy: Why you should/shouldn't migrate to the Kotlin DSL
Optimising Gradle for CI/CD and Ephermal CI/CD instances
How companies with 100s of developers or huge teams manage their Gradle modules for quickest build times
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