Aurimas Liutikas
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Software engineer working on AndroidX at Google. Gradle Fellow. He/him
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This makes me think it could make a cool car windshield wiper animation as if it was cleaning off snow.
December 10, 2025 at 7:45 AM
This makes me think it could make a cool car windshield wiper animation as if it was cleaning off snow.
The goal is to have 0 "experimental abandoned" and 0 "unknown" in 2026.
December 8, 2025 at 10:51 PM
The goal is to have 0 "experimental abandoned" and 0 "unknown" in 2026.
Starting Gradle 9.1 Gradle properties no longer invalidate cc if they are only used as properties to a task without being read during the configuration phase.
December 5, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Starting Gradle 9.1 Gradle properties no longer invalidate cc if they are only used as properties to a task without being read during the configuration phase.
Just device tests. JVM tests have not invalidated CC for a while from --tests changes.
December 5, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Just device tests. JVM tests have not invalidated CC for a while from --tests changes.
Effectively, tools on the build classpath can go to Java 17 as that's what Gradle 9.0.0 requires now.
December 1, 2025 at 4:35 AM
Effectively, tools on the build classpath can go to Java 17 as that's what Gradle 9.0.0 requires now.
Gradle separates the build classpath from the application classpath. Compose compiler plugin goes to build classpath which generally can use a much higher version of java because it just runs on your machine in a JDK, whereas the application classpath is turned into Dex and runs on Android.
December 1, 2025 at 4:34 AM
Gradle separates the build classpath from the application classpath. Compose compiler plugin goes to build classpath which generally can use a much higher version of java because it just runs on your machine in a JDK, whereas the application classpath is turned into Dex and runs on Android.
I've also noticed that it logs me out on a poor connection situations
December 1, 2025 at 4:31 AM
I've also noticed that it logs me out on a poor connection situations
A big reason for the current conservative release strategy is the fact that our libraries are used by nearly all Android apps and the cost of a mistake is very high. In com.android.support days we did not do this and it made x.x.0 versions very buggy, most waited for x.x.1 or x.x.2 before adopting.
com.android.support
November 19, 2025 at 3:18 PM
A big reason for the current conservative release strategy is the fact that our libraries are used by nearly all Android apps and the cost of a mistake is very high. In com.android.support days we did not do this and it made x.x.0 versions very buggy, most waited for x.x.1 or x.x.2 before adopting.