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Reusable Modules: It's as easy as ABI

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November 30, 2025
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Reusable Modules: It's as easy as ABI

A presentation introducing developers to the Android build system and ABI changes.

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Jordan Terry

November 30, 2025
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Transcript

  1. 1 Lightning Talks COMO IRL April 18, 2024 Reusable Modules:

    It’s as easy as ABI

  2. Build Systems are Simple* *this is a lie

  3. Kotlin Compile Kotlin Generate Java? Generate Kotlin?

  4. Compile Java? Convert To ART Bytecode Generate Java?

  5. Compile Android Resources Generate 101010101 010101010 10101010s

  6. None
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  8. DAG Directed Acyclic Graph

  9. None
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  11. Compilation Time Wasted Developer Time

  12. None

  13. ABIs A list of every public thing inside of a

    module
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  16. Visibility Modifiers public, internal and private

  17. public

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  21. private

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  25. internal

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  29. Dependencies api and implementation

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  31. implementation Consumes

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  33. It won’t compile! oh no!

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  35. api Consumes and Produces

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  37. It compiles! yay!

  38. Dependency Visibility Modifier

  39. Thank You Jordan Terry