{"id":11809,"date":"2019-06-25T09:54:44","date_gmt":"2019-06-25T17:54:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vsnews\/?p=11809"},"modified":"2019-06-25T09:54:44","modified_gmt":"2019-06-25T17:54:44","slug":"aa5f06h","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vsnews\/akams-aa5f06h\/","title":{"rendered":"Faster Xamarin.Android Builds &#038; Smaller Dex Files"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-offset-key=\"8q78s-0-0\">One of our current focus areas in Xamarin.Android is build performance. <\/span><span class=\"hardreadability\"><span data-offset-key=\"8q78s-1-0\">The \u201cinner dev loop\u201d <\/span><\/span><span class=\"adverb\"><span data-offset-key=\"8q78s-2-0\">directly<\/span><\/span><span class=\"hardreadability\"><span data-offset-key=\"8q78s-3-0\"> impacts developer productivity\u2013the time it takes to make a small code change and see the result on a device or emulator<\/span><\/span><span data-offset-key=\"8q78s-4-0\">. Reevaluating parts of Xamarin.Android\u2019s codebase has been how we\u2019ve been able to make progress.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of our current focus areas in Xamarin.Android is build performance. The \u201cinner dev loop\u201d directly impacts developer productivity\u2013the time it takes to make a small code change and see the result on a device or emulator. Reevaluating parts of Xamarin.Android\u2019s codebase has been how we\u2019ve been able to make progress.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":836,"featured_media":8227,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-allskus"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>One of our current focus areas in Xamarin.Android is build performance. The \u201cinner dev loop\u201d directly impacts developer productivity\u2013the time it takes to make a small code change and see the result on a device or emulator. Reevaluating parts of Xamarin.Android\u2019s codebase has been how we\u2019ve been able to make progress.<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/836"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11809\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}