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What’s in the Android Toolbox? Bryan Herbst (@bryancherbst)

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What tools?

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$ sdkmanager --list

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$ sdkmanager --list Tools

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$ sdkmanager --list Tools Platform-Tools

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$ sdkmanager --list Tools Platform-Tools Build-Tools

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SDK tools

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$ ls $ANDROID_HOME/tools

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$ ls $ANDROID_HOME/tools android emulator monitor

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$ ls $ANDROID_HOME/platform-tools

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$ ls $ANDROID_HOME/platform-tools adb fastboot systrace

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$ ls $ANDROID_HOME/build-tools/27.0.3

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$ ls $ANDROID_HOME/build-tools/27.0.3 aapt apksigner dx

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What’s in an APK?

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APK ≈ JAR ≈ Zip

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APK META_INF/ APK metadata

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APK META_INF/ lib/ Native libs

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APK META_INF/ lib/ res/ Static resources (PNGs, XML layouts, etc.)

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APK META_INF/ lib/ res/ assets/ Static assets (fonts, HTML, etc.)

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APK META_INF/ lib/ res/ assets/ AndroidManifest.xml Hey, this looks familiar!

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APK META_INF/ lib/ res/ assets/ AndroidManifest.xml classes.dex Your code

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APK META_INF/ lib/ res/ assets/ AndroidManifest.xml classes.dex resources.arsc Compiled resources (strings, dimens, etc.)

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Dex?

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Code (.c, etc) Machine code

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Code (.c, etc) Machine code (arm) Machine code (x86) Machine code (mips)

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Java

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Java (.java) Bytecode (.class) Machine code

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Java (.java) Bytecode (.class) Machine code Ahead-of-time

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Java (.java) Bytecode (.class) Machine code Just in time

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Android

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Ahead-of-time Java (.java) Bytecode (.class) Machine code Dex Bytecode (.dex)

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Just-in-time Java (.java) Bytecode (.class) Machine code Dex Bytecode (.dex) Dalvik

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Ahead-of-time Java (.java) Bytecode (.class) Machine code Dex Bytecode (.dex) ART

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Ahead-of-time (on-device) Java (.java) Bytecode (.class) Machine code Dex Bytecode (.dex) ART

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Ahead-of-time (on-device) (with JIT) Java (.java) Bytecode (.class) Machine code Dex Bytecode (.dex) ART

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Compile Transform Package

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Compile Transform Package .java à .class

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Compile Transform Package .classà .dex

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Compile Transform Package everything à .apk

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Shift from generic tools to Android-specific tools

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incrementality parallelism

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Gradle The orchestrator

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By default Gradle does nothing

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Plugins add functionality

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apply plugin: 'com.android.application' Android functionality

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apply plugin: 'com.android.application' apply plugin: 'java' Java functionality

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apply plugin: 'com.android.application' apply plugin: 'java' apply plugin: 'kotlin' Kotlin functionality

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Plugins can extend the DSL

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Plugins can add dependency configurations

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Plugins can add tasks

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Android Plugin 3.x & Gradle 4.x

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compile Configurations

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compile testCompile Configurations

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compile testCompile debugCompile Configurations

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compile testCompile debugCompile apk Configurations

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compile testCompile debugCompile apk provided Configurations

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compile testCompile debugCompile apk provided Configurations

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api Available at compile time and runtime Configurations

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api implementation Available at compile time, Only available to consumers at runtime Configurations

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api implementation compileOnly Only available at compile time Configurations

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api implementation compileOnly runtimeOnly Only available at runtime Configurations

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Lib B Lib A App compile ':libB'

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Lib B Lib A App compile ':libB'

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Lib B Lib A App compile ':libB'

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Lib B Lib A App compile ':libB'

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Lib B Lib A App implemenation ':libB'

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Lib B Lib A App implemenation ':libB'

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Lib B Lib A App implemenation ':libB'

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And so much more

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Compile .java à .class

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Before we compile…

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Code Generation Dagger Butterknife Databinding

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buildConfigField "String", "FOO", '"bar"'

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resValue "string", "FOO", "bar"

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Compile javac / kotlinc

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Transforms .class à .dex

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Java 8 bytecode Java 6/7 bytecode

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Java 8 bytecode Java 6/7 bytecode Bytecode Optimized bytecode

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Java 8 bytecode Java 6/7 bytecode Bytecode Optimized bytecode Java bytecode Dex bytecode

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import com.android.build.api.transform.Transform

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import com.android.build.api.transform.Transform class RetrolambdaTransform : Transform { }

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app/build ├── generated ├── intermediates │ ├── classes │ └── transforms │ ├── dex[...] │ ├── mergeJavaRes │ ├── profilers-transform │ └── proguard └── outputs └── apk

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DX and D8 The dexing duo

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DX is the current dexing tool

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$ javac Main.java $ dx --dex --output=. Main.class

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dexdump lets you disassemble dex files

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$ dexdump –d classes.dex

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[000148] Main.main(String) 0000: sget-object v0, System;.out:PrintStream; 0002: const-string v1, "Hello World" 0004: invoke-virtual {v0, v1}, println:(String)V 0007: return-void

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[000148] Main.main(String) 0000: sget-object v0, System;.out:PrintStream; 0002: const-string v1, "Hello World" 0004: invoke-virtual {v0, v1}, println:(String)V 0007: return-void

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D8 is the next-gen dexing tool

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Faster compilation!

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Faster compilation! Smaller dex files!

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Faster compilation! Smaller dex files! R8 integration!

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gradle.properties android.enableD8=true

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Default in Studio + Gradle Plugin 3.1

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Desugar Artificial Java sweetener

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Retrolambda

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Retrolambda

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Retrolambda Jack

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Retrolambda Jack

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Retrolambda Jack Desugar

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Retrolambda Jack Desugar D8

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Jack and Jill Dead tools

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Shrink + Obfsucate ProGuard and R8

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Activity Class A Class B

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Activity Class A Class B

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Activity Class A

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A B

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ProGuard The old guard

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ProGuard is an open-source Java shrinker, obfuscation, and optimization tool

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minifyEnabled true proguardFiles 'proguard-rules.pro'

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-keep class com.model.ImportantData { *; }

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-keep class * extends android.view.View { (...); }

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AAPT automatically generates ProGuard rules for Activities

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AAPT automatically generates ProGuard rules for Views

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AAPT automatically generates ProGuard rules for Services

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AAPT automatically generates ProGuard rules for ContentProviders

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AAPT automatically generates ProGuard rules for BroadcastReceivers

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ProGuard is an open-source Java shrinker, obfuscation, and optimization tool

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ProGuard is an open-source Java shrinker, obfuscation, and optimization tool

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Activity Drawable Class A

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Drawable Class A

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R8 The new (pro)guard

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R8 The new (pro)guard And D8

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R8 does full program Shrinking, obfuscation, and optimization

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Better incremental builds!

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Better incremental builds! New DSL!

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Not available yet :(

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Package Making the APK

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A A P T

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Android Asset Packaging Tool

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AAPT packages, reads, and updates APKs

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AAPT also…

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AAPT also… Processes resources

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AAPT also… Processes resources Generates R class

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AAPT also… Processes resources Generates R class Compiles resources

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AAPT2 Android Asset Packaging Tool 2

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AAPT2 is enabled by default as of plugin 3.0.0

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AAPT2 split linking and compilation

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AAPT2 is more restrictive

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APK Signing

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V1 signatures use jarsigner

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V2 signatures use apksigner

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Whole-file signature https://source.android.com/security/apksigning/v2

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Gradle Plugin 2.2+ defaults to v2 signatures

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Zipalign

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Zipalign aligns APKs on 4-byte boundaries

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Memory CPU

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Memory CPU Data

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Memory CPU Data

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Memory CPU

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Memory CPU Data

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Memory CPU Data

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Memory CPU Data

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Memory CPU Data

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Memory CPU Data

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V1 signature: After signing V2 signature: Before signing

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apkzlib

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Packing tools aapt apksigner zipalign

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Packing tools aapt apksigner zipalign Gradle Android Plugin apkzlib

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Post-build

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ART Android Runtime

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Ahead-of-time (on-device) (with JIT) Java (.java) Bytecode (.class) Machine code Dex Bytecode (.dex)

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Compiled APK (.dex)

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Compiled APK (.dex) optimize (dex2oat) Optimized APK (.dex, .oat)

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Compiled APK (.dex) optimize (dex2oat) Optimized APK (.dex, .oat) JIT Profile

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Compiled APK (.dex) optimize (dex2oat) Optimized APK (.dex, .oat) JIT Profile optimize (dex2oat) Optimized .oat

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Compiled APK (.dex) optimize (dex2oat) Optimized APK (.dex, .oat) JIT Profile optimize (dex2oat) Optimized .oat

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Compiled APK (.dex) optimize (dex2oat) Optimized APK (.dex, .oat) JIT Profile optimize (dex2oat) Optimized .oat Android 5.0

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Compiled APK (.dex) optimize (dex2oat) Optimized APK (.dex, .oat) JIT Profile optimize (dex2oat) Optimized .oat Android 7.0

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State of the ART

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State of the ART Interpreted (.dex)

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State of the ART Interpreted (.dex) JIT Compiled (in memory)

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State of the ART Interpreted (.dex) JIT Compiled (in memory) AOT compiled (.oat)

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Tools: android.googlesource.com/platform/tools/base ART, APK Signing: source.android.com/ R8 + D8: r8.googlesource.com

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