android-jack-and-jill – Tarik Billa

How to speed up Android Studio compilation process

December 6, 2023 by Tarik

How to perform minification and obfuscation with the JACK compiler?

September 14, 2023 by Tarik

J.A.C.K. obfuscation does not appear to be supported in the latest released Gradle Plugin (v2.1.0). If you enable JACK when using the latest v2.1.0 plugin, it will tell you Jack requires Build Tools 24.0.0 or later requiring you to use the preview tools. Using android gradle v2.2.0-alpha1, Build Tools-v24rc4, Platform Tools-v24rc3, and Sdk Tools-v25.1.7rc1 I … Read more

Android N Java 8 features (Jack compiler) and Kotlin interop

January 10, 2023 by Tarik

disclaimer: I work on Jack This won’t affect you. Kotlin’s compiler produces Java 6 bytecode, which Jack/Jill can import just fine.