Scaling developer experience: How we improved Android Studio in a large monorepo

Grab optimized Android Studio performance in a large monorepo with 2,000+ modules by implementing a custom Focus plugin that reduces IDE sync time.

• •Full IDE sync could take 35+ minutes due to 2,000 modules requiring Gradle configuration
• •Implemented a custom Focus plugin leveraging their Gradle-to-Bazel migration workflow
• •Pre-computed dependency graph as static JSON file to skip Gradle configuration phase
• •Used include shadow trick to seamlessly redirect module declarations without migrating settings.gradle
• •Reduced sync time and memory consumption by focusing on specific modules and their dependencies

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