Android Developers Blog: R8

Improve app performance with optimized resource shrinking

09 settembre 2025

Posted by Johan Bay - Software Engineer A small and fast app is key to a fantastic user experience. That's why we built R8 , our ...

Tools, not Rules: become a better Android developer with Compiler Explorer

18 settembre 2024

Posted by Shai Barack – Android Platform Performance lead Introducing Android support in Compiler Explorer In a previous blog pos...

API desugaring supporting Android 13 and java.nio

16 febbraio 2023

Posted by Clément Béra, Software engineer We are happy to announce the release of a new version of API desugaring based on Android 13 an...

R8, the new code shrinker from Google, is available in Android studio 3.3 beta

05 novembre 2018

Posted by Leo Sei, Product Manager on Android Studio and R8 Android developers know that APK size is an important factor in user engagem...

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