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Aurimas Liutikas @liutikas.net · 12h

Awesome post from @f1xedgear.bsky.social and @autonomousapps.bsky.social about improving Gradle sync times in the IDE

engineering.block.xyz/blog/shrinki...

#gradle

Shrinking Elephants

Managing very large projects with Gradle and Intellij IDEA-based IDEs

engineering.block.xyz

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Aurimas Liutikas @liutikas.net · 12h

A week ago I learned about largely undocumented GradlePluginApiVersion API. I wrote a post about it!

www.liutikas.net/2025/10/15/G...

#gradle

Gradle Version Checking - Finding an API hidden deep in the basement

Every Gradle Plugin has an implicit minimum version of Gradle that it supports. If you simply write a plugin, test it on the versions you care about, but you...

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Aurimas Liutikas @liutikas.net · 19h

Can't stop won't stop!

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Aurimas Liutikas @liutikas.net · 20h

Come hear me talk about keeping your large Gradle builds in order at @droidcon.bsky.social London!

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Aurimas Liutikas @liutikas.net · 1d

It boggled my mind to learn that Meta tracks per character (not line) attribution of AI vs human using their versioning system and tools. For them it is about % of useful (not space/new line/ect) characters written by AI. Not sure many companies can track things like that.

dpe.org/sessions/pav...

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Aurimas Liutikas @liutikas.net · 1d

What are your biggest pet peeves for Android tooling?

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Aurimas Liutikas @liutikas.net · 5d

Would you like to work on Compose at Google (Mountain View CA office)?

Apply here and let's work together www.google.com/about/career...

Senior Software Engineer, Jetpack Compose — Google Careers

www.google.com

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Aurimas Liutikas @liutikas.net · 5d

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Aurimas Liutikas @liutikas.net · 10d

A quick write up of an investigation for a test failure with NoSuchFieldError

www.liutikas.net/2025/10/06/N...

NoSuchFieldError - JavaVersion does not have member field 'JavaVersion$Companion Companion'

AndroidX team strongly believes in shadow jobs to catch regressions early. Metalava tool that we use to track androidx APIs builds on top of Android Lint inf...

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Aurimas Liutikas @liutikas.net · 10d

Found this website that lets you visualize energy sources and flows between various countries.

Awesome to see Lithuania is doing really well with renewables transition!

app.electricitymaps.com/map/live/fif...

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Aurimas Liutikas @liutikas.net · 10d

A great talk by @p-y.wtf @ DroidCon on "Embracing the Chaos: Investigating Production Madness".

I couldn't agree more that a lot of growth as a software engineer is all about understanding the root cause. So much of my Grade, JVM and other knowledge came from that.

youtube.com/watch?v=kOH1...

Embracing the Chaos: Investigating Production Madness - Pierre-Yves Ricau | droidcon Berlin 2025

YouTube video by droidcon & fluttercon

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Aurimas Liutikas @liutikas.net · 12d

I've been really enjoying "Java's 1-billion-row challenge" series by Marco Behler (@jetbrains.com) and @cmuratori.bsky.social

It is great for JVM devs, but it also widely applies to Android code as well.

It reminds me of
@romainguy.dev
's performance blog posts

www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

youtube.com

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Aurimas Liutikas @liutikas.net · 12d

Are you missing specific APIs for your app to take advantage of?

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 13d

so the US government just forced a tech company to delete an app it doesn’t like, which is totally normal stuff

www.404media.co/iceblock-own...

ICEBlock Owner After Apple Removes App: ‘We Are Determined to Fight This’

Apple removed ICEBlock reportedly after direct pressure from Department of Justice officials. “I am incredibly disappointed by Apple's actions today. Capitulating to an authoritarian regime is never t...

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Aurimas Liutikas @liutikas.net · 13d

The security fixes do get back ported to the Android container in ChromeOS

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Gradle @gradle.com · 13d

From the #Gradle community 👉 👉 👉

Martin Bonnin shares his thoughts on the separation of concerns for your Gradle plugins!

https://mbonnin.net/2025-08-24_isolation_101/

Classloader isolation 101

Separation of concerns for your Gradle plugins

mbonnin.net

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Aurimas Liutikas @liutikas.net · 15d

If you are using Gradle configuration cache you know that one of the most frustrating parts of the experience is unexpected CC misses. I wrote a post on how to minimize that!

www.liutikas.net/2025/09/30/I...

#gradle

Input to Your Inputs - What Invalidates Gradle Configuration Cache?

By now you have hopefully adopted Gradle’s configuration cache (CC) feature, and it is giving you huge speed-ups by skipping configuration phase for quick it...

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Rebecca Franks @riggaroo.dev · 20d

📢 The androidx.compose.material.icons library is no longer recommended for displaying Material Icons in Compose. We have stopped publishing updates to this library & it has been removed from the latest Material 3 library release, you can still manually reference it if you cannot migrate.

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Aurimas Liutikas @liutikas.net · 23d

How does one add conferences to confetti? I'd love to get the Developer Productivity Summit by Gradle there (starts tomorrow) dpe.org/dpe-summit/agenda/

Agenda - Developer Productivity Engineering Summit 2025

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Aurimas Liutikas @liutikas.net · 24d

a close up of a young boy 's face with the number 3 in the background

ALT: a close up of a young boy 's face with the number 3 in the background

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Gergely Orosz @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com · 26d

I cannot describe how bad this is for tech companies.

Not the $100K fee on *new* H1Bs, but that their software engineers currently abroad can be turned back (or detained?) at the border with ZERO notice!

It brings uncertainty to running a business in the US. Plus (cont’d)

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Aurimas Liutikas @liutikas.net · 26d

There are folks who use it all the time and some that never use it. It is a huge range.

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Aurimas Liutikas @liutikas.net · 26d

I could really relate to the passion of writing software. The assessment of AI as unethical theft of everyone's work was just cherry on top.

Andrei Shikov @shikasd.bsky.social · 27d

The podcast:

youtu.be/apREl0KmTdQ?...

Software Performance: Avoiding Slow Code, Myths & Sane Approaches – Casey Muratori | The Marco Show

YouTube video by IntelliJ IDEA, a JetBrains IDE

youtu.be

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Aurimas Liutikas @liutikas.net · 26d

Thanks for sharing this. I could really relate to his take on software and why AI doesn't jive with me well.

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