Android Unplugged

  The Black Box of Gradle Builds As Android applications grow, they inevitably turn into deeply nested, multi-module mazes. You start with a clean architecture, but fast forward 6 months, and you are staring at a 5-minute build time, wondering where it all went wrong. Is it a circular dependency? Is a rogue module breaking the Configuration Cache? Are we still running KAPT when we don’t need to? For a long time, answering these questions required digging through Gradle build scans and manually tracking build.gradle files. Web developers have had "Google Lighthouse" for years to instantly audit their site’s health. I realized Android developers needed the exact same thing for their build systems. So, I built Gradle Lighthouse — an open-source, zero-configuration build intelligence plugin. To test if it was truly enterprise-ready, I decided to point it at the gold standard of modern Android architecture: Google’s Now in Android (NIA) repository. The Experiment: Auditing “No...

Android interviews have changed significantly over the last few years. It’s no longer enough to memorize: Activity lifecycle RecyclerView optimizations MVVM definitions Basic coroutine syntax Senior Android interviews in 2026 are increasingly focused on: architecture tradeoffs scalability debugging ability performance optimization concurrency reasoning system design thinking Jetpack Compose internals modularization strategies production engineering decisions This series is designed to help Android engineers prepare for modern SDE2/SDE3 interviews through deep dives, follow-up discussions, real-world scenarios, and advanced engineering concepts. If you’re targeting: Product companies Large-scale Android teams Senior Android roles Staff-level discussions High-growth startups this roadmap is built for you. Who This Series Is For This series is ideal for: SDE1 → SDE2 Transition Engineers Developers preparing for their first senior Android interviews. Experienced Android Engineers Engineers...