Gradle Lighthouse — Architecture Health Scoring for Android & KMP

Enterprise-grade Architectural Intelligence for Android & Kotlin projects.
Analyze build health, visualize architecture, detect dependency risks, automate remediation, and enforce engineering standards directly from your Gradle build.

Gradle Lighthouse

Architecture Intelligence • Build Health • Quality Gates • CI/CD • Enterprise Ready


Install from Gradle Plugin Portal

plugins { id("io.github.dev-vikas-soni.lighthouse") version "2.3.2" }

                             Build Faster.  Architect Better.

Most Android teams know they have technical debt. Few know where it lives, which modules are responsible, or which fixes actually improve build health.

Gradle Lighthouse transforms your Gradle build into an intelligent architectural review system. Instead of overwhelming developers with hundreds of warnings, it highlights the highest ROI improvements using transparent scoring, dependency analysis, architectural rules, and actionable remediation.

Whether you're maintaining a startup application, a large enterprise Android app, or a 500-module monorepo, Gradle Lighthouse helps engineering teams continuously improve architecture before technical debt becomes expensive.

🚀 What's New in v2.3.2

Version 2.3.2 completes Phase 3 — Automation & Adoption of the Gradle Lighthouse roadmap.

🤖 GenAI Remediation

Generate intelligent Gradle migration suggestions including KAPT → KSP migration, Version Catalog adoption, and modern Gradle best practices.

📌 Baseline System

Suppress historical technical debt and focus only on newly introduced architectural issues. Perfect for adopting Lighthouse in mature projects.

🤖 GitHub PR Bot

Automatically post Pull Request summaries, Health Score changes, dependency cycle warnings, and architecture regressions.

🔮 Predictive Dependency Intelligence

Estimate binary size, startup overhead, and SDK impact before introducing new dependencies into your project.

🛠 Deterministic Fixes

Automatically apply common Gradle optimizations, configuration improvements, and modernization fixes with lighthouseFix.

📚 Remediation Recipes

Every issue now links directly to detailed technical guidance, allowing developers to understand both the problem and its recommended solution.

Why Engineering Teams Choose Lighthouse

Traditional lint tools identify syntax issues. Gradle Lighthouse evaluates architecture, build engineering, dependency quality, project structure, and engineering health across your entire codebase.

Instead of isolated warnings, it provides a unified Health Score along with prioritized recommendations, architectural insights, interactive visualizations, and automated remediation workflows.

🏗️ Architecture Health Score

Measure architectural quality across Architecture, Security, Build Performance, Dependency Hygiene, Complexity, Modernization, Scalability, and Maintainability.

Every issue contributes transparently to your overall Health Score, helping teams prioritize improvements with the highest engineering impact.

🌌 Interactive Galaxy Graph

Visualize your complete module dependency graph with interactive exploration.

  • Dependency cycles
  • Architecture hotspots
  • Impact visualization
  • Refactoring Sandbox

🤖 GenAI Remediation

Go beyond diagnostics. Generate AI-assisted migration suggestions for modern Gradle practices including:

  • KAPT → KSP
  • Version Catalog migration
  • Gradle modernization
  • Dependency cleanup

📌 Baseline System

Large legacy projects no longer need to fix years of accumulated technical debt before adopting Lighthouse.

Capture today's issues once, then focus only on newly introduced regressions.

🤖 GitHub PR Bot

Bring architectural insights directly into Pull Requests.

  • Health Score delta
  • Dependency cycle warnings
  • Architecture regressions
  • Quality Gate summaries

🔮 Predictive Dependency Intelligence

Estimate the engineering impact of introducing a dependency before it enters your project.

  • Binary size impact
  • Startup cost
  • Architecture recommendations
  • SDK intelligence

📈 Path to 90

Receive a prioritized roadmap showing which improvements produce the biggest Health Score gains.

Focus engineering effort where it matters most.

🛡 Enterprise Quality Gates

Prevent architectural degradation before code reaches production.

  • Dependency cycles
  • Layer violations
  • Minimum Health Score
  • Custom YAML policies

Built for Modern Gradle

Gradle Lighthouse has been designed around modern Gradle engineering principles including lazy configuration, Configuration Cache, and Project Isolation.

⚡ Performance

  • Configuration Cache compatible
  • Lazy Provider API
  • Minimal configuration overhead
  • Efficient graph traversal

🏢 Enterprise

  • Gradle 8.5+
  • Gradle 9.x Ready
  • Multi-module projects
  • Large monorepos

🔒 CI/CD

  • SARIF v2.1.0
  • JUnit XML
  • GitHub Actions
  • Quality Gates

🌍 Portable

  • Self-contained HTML reports
  • No external CDNs
  • Offline compatible
  • Air-gapped friendly

More Than Static Analysis

Most build tools stop at identifying problems. Gradle Lighthouse follows a complete engineering workflow:

Audit  →  Analyze  →  Score  →  Visualize  →  Remediate  →  Enforce

Helping engineering teams continuously improve architecture instead of simply collecting warnings.

Rich Reports for Developers & CI/CD

Gradle Lighthouse produces multiple report formats tailored for developers, build engineers, DevOps teams, and enterprise CI/CD pipelines.

📊 Interactive HTML

A fully self-contained dashboard with Health Score, Galaxy Graph, architecture insights, trend charts, and actionable recommendations.

🛡 SARIF v2.1.0

Upload directly into GitHub Code Scanning and enterprise security platforms for centralized architectural visibility.

✅ JUnit XML

Surface architectural failures inside Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Azure DevOps, and other CI systems.

📄 JSON Reports

Machine-readable output powering aggregation, historical trends, GitHub PR Bot, and future ecosystem integrations.

Architecture Intelligence, Not Just Lint

Traditional static analysis answers:

  • Is this line of code correct?
  • Is this API deprecated?
  • Did someone forget a null check?

Gradle Lighthouse answers much bigger engineering questions.

  • Which modules have become architectural bottlenecks?
  • Where are hidden dependency cycles forming?
  • Which SDKs are hurting startup performance?
  • How healthy is the project compared to industry benchmarks?
  • What improvements provide the highest engineering ROI?
  • Which architectural regressions were introduced in this Pull Request?

20+ Architectural Auditors

Gradle Lighthouse continuously evaluates multiple dimensions of engineering quality rather than focusing on a single metric.

🏗 Architecture
⚡ Build Performance
🔐 Security
📦 Dependency Hygiene
🧩 Modularization
📈 Maintainability
🚀 Modernization
🧠 Complexity
🌍 Sustainability
📊 Benchmarking
🛡 Compliance
📚 Best Practices

20+ auditors working together to produce one unified engineering Health Score.

Designed for Enterprise Android Teams

Gradle Lighthouse scales from personal side projects to enterprise Android platforms with hundreds of Gradle modules.

🏦 Large Organizations

  • Architecture governance
  • Engineering scorecards
  • Quality gates
  • Portfolio-wide consistency

👨‍💻 Development Teams

  • PR feedback
  • Technical debt tracking
  • Historical trends
  • Automated recommendations

⚙ Build Engineers

  • CI/CD integration
  • SARIF export
  • Configuration Cache safety
  • Project Isolation support

Roadmap

Gradle Lighthouse is evolving from an architectural auditing plugin into a complete engineering intelligence platform.

✅ Phase 1 — Foundation

  • 20+ Architectural Auditors
  • Health Score Engine
  • Multi-module Aggregation
  • SARIF & JUnit Reports
  • Configuration Cache Support
  • Isolated Projects Compatibility

✅ Phase 2 — Visualization & Enforcement

  • Interactive Galaxy Graph
  • Historical Trend Tracking
  • Quality Gates
  • Custom YAML Rules
  • Dependency Sandbox
  • Architecture Ranking

✅ Phase 3 — Automation & Adoption

  • Baseline System
  • Deterministic Auto Fixes
  • GenAI Remediation
  • GitHub PR Bot
  • Predictive Dependency Intelligence
  • Remediation Recipe Database
  • Privacy-First Telemetry

🚧 Phase 4 — Ecosystem & Governance

  • Lighthouse CLI
  • Android Studio / IntelliJ Plugin
  • Bytecode & APK Auditing
  • Cloud Dashboard
  • Organization-wide Reporting
  • Green Build Sustainability Metrics

Documentation That Scales With Your Team

Gradle Lighthouse now ships with comprehensive documentation designed for Android developers, build engineers, OSS contributors, and enterprise teams.

🚀 Getting Started

Installation, Quick Start, and your first audit.

🧠 Concepts

Snapshot Architecture, Health Score, Galaxy Graph, and engineering philosophy.

🛡 Guides

CI/CD, PR Bot, Baselines, Custom Rules, and GenAI Remediation.

📚 Reference

Auditor Catalog, DSL Reference, CLI Tasks, and Developer Guides.

Complete Android Quality Platform

Gradle Lighthouse is part of a broader vision to improve Android engineering quality throughout the software lifecycle.

🏗 Build-Time Intelligence

Gradle Lighthouse

  • Architecture Auditing
  • Dependency Intelligence
  • Health Scoring
  • Build Optimization
  • Quality Gates
  • CI/CD Integration

🚀 Runtime Intelligence

LeakLens

  • Memory Leak Detection
  • Heap Analysis
  • Leak Visualization
  • AI Fix Assistant
  • Android Studio Integration
  • Runtime Diagnostics

Together, Gradle Lighthouse and LeakLens provide engineering teams with end-to-end visibility into both build-time architecture and runtime application quality.

Get Started in Under a Minute

plugins {
    id("io.github.dev-vikas-soni.lighthouse") version "2.3.2"
}


./gradlew lighthouseAudit
./gradlew lighthouseAggregate

Open the generated HTML report and begin improving your project's engineering health immediately.

Start Building Healthier Android Projects Today

Stop guessing about your architecture. Measure it. Visualize it. Improve it. Automate it.

Install Gradle Lighthouse

Free • Open Source • MIT Licensed

GitHub Repository  •  Gradle Plugin Portal  •  Roadmap  •  LeakLens

Built for modern Android and Kotlin engineering teams.
Architecture Intelligence • Build Health • CI/CD • Enterprise Ready

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