AOSP is the Android Open Spurce Project Architecture Source Code is hosted here: https://android.googlesource.com/platform/manifest Google uses repo (basically a git wrapper written in python) to clone the source code. You can find the instructions here: https://source.android.com/setup/build/downloading Further Reading What is Ninja? What is kapt? Anatomy of a Gradle file
As mentioned in What is ProGuard? R8 is the new kid on the block for shrinking and optimizing code. App Gradle android { buildTypes { release { minifyEnabled true shrinkResources true proguardFiles getDefaultProguardFile( ‘proguard-android-optimize.txt’), ‘proguard-rules.pro’ } } https://developer.android.com/studio/build/shrink-code
Perhaps you noticed the file proguard-rules.pro in your app directory? Why do we need that? ProGuard ProGuard has three use cases: shrinking obfuscating optimizing Code shrinking Often called “tree shaking”, shrinking optimizes the byte code by removing unused code. Resource shrinking After code shrinking all non-referenced resources will be removed as well Obfuscation This step…