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Dec 28, 2021 · Mobile Development

Analyzing Gradle’s Scheduling Mechanism to Optimize Android Component Publishing

This article investigates why large Android projects experience extremely slow AAR publishing, reveals that memory is not the main bottleneck, examines Gradle’s core scheduling, Worker API, lock contention, and measurement inaccuracies, and proposes disabling Worker API to achieve up to fifteen‑fold build speed improvements.