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18% Faster Compiles, 0% Compromises
18% Faster Compiles, 0% Compromises

15 December 2025

Posted by Santiago Aboy Solanes - Software Engineer, VladimĂ­r Marko - Software Engineer The Android Runtime (ART) team has reduced comp...


Reddit improved app startup speed by over 50% using Baseline Profiles and R8
Reddit improved app startup speed by over 50% using Baseline Profiles and R8

12 December 2024

Posted by Ben Weiss – Developer Relations Engineer, and Lauren Darcey – Senior Engineering Manager, Reddit Reddit is one of the wor...


Android 3.0 Hardware Acceleration
Android 3.0 Hardware Acceleration

14 March 2011

[This post is by Romain Guy , who likes things on your screen to move fast. —Tim Bray] One of the biggest changes we made to Android for Hon...


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Optimize your layouts

10 December 2009

Writing user interface layouts for Android applications is easy, but it can sometimes be difficult to optimize them. Most often, heavy modi...


Android Layout Tricks #3: Optimize with stubs
Android Layout Tricks #3: Optimize with stubs

30 March 2009

Sharing and reusing layouts is very easy with Android thanks to the <include /> tag, sometimes even too easy and you might end up wit...


Window Backgrounds & UI Speed
Window Backgrounds & UI Speed

05 March 2009

Some Android applications require to squeeze every bit of performance out of the UI toolkit and there are many ways to do so. In this articl...