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title: "Boost Android app performance"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/boost-android-app-performance-u3e2jgaf8
source_url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVrKof29cV8
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source: "Android Developers"
published: 2026-06-05T20:22:37.854Z
updated: 2026-06-05T20:22:53.882Z
tags: ["android"]
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# Boost Android app performance

**[Android Developers](https://daily.dev/sources/androiddevelopers)** · 1 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

A brief interview-style discussion on improving Android app performance, focusing on R8 full mode as a quick win. Enabling R8 full mode is highlighted as an underrated but impactful optimization that improves memory usage and enables powerful shrinking, obfuscation, and optimization. A newly launched R8 configuration analyzer tool is also mentioned, which lets developers audit keep rules and view scores for app shrinking and obfuscation.

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