Boost Android app performance with the R8 optimizer | Spotlight Week

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The R8 optimizer is the best tool for low effort and high impact performance improvement you can use. Learn why you should enable the R8 optimizer in your app, what it does to improve your Android app's performance, and how to enable the R8 optimizer. Resources: Enable app optimization → https://goo.gle/app-optimization App performance guide → https://goo.gle/app-performance Baseline profiles overview → https://goo.gle/baseline-profiles App Performance Score → https://goo.gle/fix-anr Chapters: 0:00 - Introduction 0:44 - Reddit case study 2:14 - Overall improvement areas 3:54 - What R8 does 5:09 - Enable R8’s full potential 5:52 - Proguard-Android vs Proguard-Android-Optimize (Disney+ case study) 7:19 - Not using R8 to enable it (APG 9.0 onwards) 8:12 - Baseline profiles 9:04 - Recap 9:23 - Your challenge for this week Watch more Android Spotlight Week → https://goo.gle/SpotlightWeeks Subscribe to Android Developers → https://goo.gle/AndroidDevs #Performance #AndroidDevelopers Speaker: Ben Weiss Products Mentioned: Android, R8

Published 2025-11-17 · Watch on YouTube ↗
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