Iñaki Villar articles - 13 total
Results After 3 Months of Android Gradle Build Experiments with Telltale
It's been three months since I released the Telltale GitHub Pages site, automating the creation and...
Balancing Memory Heap and Performance in Gradle Builds
In this post, we analyze the impact of different memory heap configurations on the performance of a...
Gradle 8.11: Faster Configuration Cache and Improved Configuration Time
As modularization becomes increasingly common in Android projects, it increases the number of...
Telltale: Automating Experimentation in Gradle Builds
In this article, I introduce the latest iteration of Telltale, a framework designed to automate...
Resource observability case study: jemalloc in Android builds
As build engineers, one of our biggest concerns is running out of memory during our Gradle builds....
Performance Impact Analysis of Gradle 8.7 in Android Projects
Yesterday was released Gradle 8.7. Our repositories are roaring with bot-generated PRs helping us...
nowinandroid builds with Gradle 8.5 and JDK 21
Gradle 8.5 fully supports compiling, testing and running on Java 21. Java updates frequently include...
KSP in Android projects
The Android community had awesome news this week: Dagger and Hilt KSP processors are now available in...
A glimpse of K2 in nowinandroid
K2 is the new frontend for the Kotlin compiler. The compiler is already available for preview and is...
Around the World in 8 remote cache nodes
Nowadays, distributed teams across different regions or countries are common in organizations....
JDK 17: Using ParallelGC for the Kotlin process in Android Builds
In the previous article, we explained the results of using ParallelGC in the Kotlin process for the...
Using ParallelGC for the Kotlin process in Android Builds
tl;dr The type of garbage collector is not inherited by the Kotlin process if it's...
Measuring JDK updates for local builds in Android projects
Context Latest Android Gradle Plugin 8.0.0-alpha10 requires JDK17 min version for...