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What's so great about R8?

Android Developers Backstage by Android Developers

Feb 18, 202601:06:30Technology

Join hosts Tor and Romain as they sit down with Søren Gjesse, Chris Craik, and Shai Barack. This week, the team dives into R8, the whole-program optimizer that handles the "last mile" of your code before it runs on a dev...

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