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Aurimas Liutikas
September 26, 2024
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Taming the Monorepo Beast: How We Made AndroidX Library Releases At Scale More Bearable
Talk by Aurimas Liutikas (Google) at DPE Summit SF 2024
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Transcript
Taming the Monorepo Beast How We Made AndroidX Library Releases
At Scale More Bearable Aurimas Liutikas / AndroidX @ Google @
[email protected]
What is androidx? Collection of widely used open-source libraries Main
Android API surface Broad range of functionality Developed by dozens of separate teams
Early Days Releases (com.android.support)
Early Days Releases Monolith releases a few times a year
21.0.3 21.0.2 21.0.0
Early Days Releases Uniform version with major based on Android
API level 21.0.3 21.0.2 21.0.0 22.2.1 22.2.0 22.1.1 22.1.0 22.0.0 23.4.0 23.3.0 23.2.1 23.2.0 23.1.1 23.1.0 23.0.1 23.0.0
Early Days Releases Eventually added alpha/beta 21.0.3 21.0.2 21.0.0 22.2.1
22.2.0 22.1.1 22.1.0 22.0.0 23.4.0 23.3.0 23.2.1 23.2.0 23.1.1 23.1.0 23.0.1 23.0.0 24.2.1 24.2.0 24.1.1 24.1.0 24.0.0 24.0.0-beta1 24.0.0-alpha2 24.0.0-alpha1 25.4.0 25.3.1 25.3.0 25.2.0 25.1.1 25.1.0 25.0.1 25.0.0 26.1.0 26.0.2 26.0.1 26.0.0 26.0.0-beta2 26.0.0-beta1 26.0.0-alpha1
No Longer Scaling (circa 2018) 60 libraries from ~13 teams
9 pages of release instructions Some libraries were monoliths of their own Bug fix in one library → 59 released with no changes Forced releases to align with Android OS releases
08 May 2018 Hello World, androidx Generated by Google AI
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The New Plan Split and restructure libraries • À la
carte library adoption • Clear maven coordinate to package mapping ◦ androidx.foo:foo-bar →androidx.foo.bar Generated by Google AI Image Generator
The New Plan Adopt per library semantic versioning
The New Plan Adopt per library semantic versioning MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH
The New Plan Adopt per library semantic versioning MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH
The New Plan Adopt per library semantic versioning MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH
The New Plan Adopt per library semantic versioning MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH-(alpha|beta|rc)
The New Plan Depend on the lowest possible versions of
other libraries androidx.foo:foo:1.0.0 androidx.foo:foo:1.0.1 androidx.foo:foo:1.1.0 androidx.foo:foo:1.2.0 androidx.foo:foo:1.3.0 androidx.foo:foo:1.0.0 androidx.foo:foo:1.0.1 androidx.foo:foo:1.1.0 androidx.foo:foo:1.2.0 androidx.foo:foo:1.3.0 vs
Let’s execute the new plan!
Welp, this is a lot of manual work
Interconnectedness
Interconnectedness
Pinned vs Unpinned api(project(“:foo:foo-bar”)) vs api(“androidx.foo:foo-bar:1.1.0”)
Can we move to self-service?
Optional Release Trains (controlled chaos)
None
None
None
androidx-main vs release branches alpha & beta from androidx-main •
regular development rc & stable from androidx-foo-release • cherry-pick only
How Has It Gone?
Scale of androidx androidx migration Jetpad
Scale of androidx androidx migration Jetpad
Scale of androidx Jetpad
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED?
Current Pain Points Painful bugfix releases
Current Pain Points Painful bugfix releases Difficult build infrastructure backports
to release branches
Current Pain Points Painful bugfix releases Difficult build infrastructure backports
to release branches Kotlin Multiplatform artifact explosion
That’s all Folks!