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.…