Measuring JDK updates for local builds in Android projects

• nowinandroid

  58 15,161 9.7 Kotlin

  A fully functional Android app built entirely with Kotlin and Jetpack Compose

  

Perfect time to show the potential wins of updating the Java version. Some companies have already moved to newer Java versions, but most of the Android projects are still building with Java 11. This article shows the results of measuring the impact of building with different JDK versions in the project nowinandroid. We'll focus on incremental changes applied to the project, simulating the local builds.

• gradle-profiler

  3 1,333 7.7 Java

  A tool for gathering profiling and benchmarking information for Gradle builds

  

To measure the impact of the JDK update, we need to create a scenario that is a simulation of incremental changes in the codebase. To create and automate the scenario we use Gradle Profiler. Gradle Profiler allows to use different mutations in the incremental scenario, some of them are:

• WorkOS

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  The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

  

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