Small and large teams building Android applications, at some point in their life cycle depend upon a Continuous Integration environment to develop their Android Projects.

Strategizing infrastructure becomes important because it affects cost of operations, developer experience, time to market. This talk dives deep into various strategies for choosing infrastructure, configuring CI pipelines, monitoring CI pipelines, optimizing pipelines, optimizing builds. The session includes Includes various tools, frameworks, metrics and techniques that can be used in the CI Infrastructure, such as Shared Build Cache for fast builds, ELK (Elastic, Kibana) stack for monitoring the Infrastructure, Gradle profiler for benchmarking and optimizing builds.

The talk also touches upon strategies to improve Android build performance which has a direct impact upon cost, developer productivity and time to market.