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7-9 OCT. 2026
BERLIN


( SPEAKER )
Alex Semin
Staff Software Engineer
Gradle
Alex is an enthusiastic team leader and quality-focused developer with a passion for building tools and programming languages. With over 10 years of experience in software engineering, Alex is currently part of the Gradle Build Tool team. He focuses on aspects of scalability and adaptability of Gradle to builds of any size and shape. With the goal of putting "soft" back into software, he is committed to the life-long learning and greatly enjoys sharing his knowledge with others.
Session
Divide and Conquer configuration time of your build with Isolated Projects
Rebase your branch, hit the "Sync Gradle changes" button in Android Studio and go grab a coffee, because it might take a while. Bump a dependency, run a task… and wait until any task actually starts running. Has this happened to you?
Android apps have to constantly change and grow, and Gradle is built to adapt to your needs. But balancing flexibility and performance is a challenge: as projects get larger, configuration time can become a bottleneck, making IDE sync slow as well. So how can Gradle continue to scale with your ambition?
In this talk you'll learn about the next chapter of Gradle's scalability story: Isolated Projects. We’ll explore when and how it can speed up builds and which new performance features it unlocks. You’ll also learn how to try it out in your own app or library, and how to migrate faster using agents.
Let's tip the scales toward faster builds!
Takeaways
- A deep understanding of Isolated Projects
- Insights into how Gradle works under the hood
- Best practices for faster Android builds
- New and upcoming performance features of Gradle
- Practical guidance for adopting Isolated Projects
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