Configuring R8 For Compose

by skydoves

Configuring R8 For Compose is a DevOps skill for Claude Code, published by skydoves in compose-performance-skills.

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Install Configuring R8 For Compose

Copy Configuring R8 For Compose into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/skydoves/compose-performance-skills/tree/main/build/configuring-r8-for-compose ~/.claude/skills/configuring-r8-for-compose

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/skydoves/compose-performance-skills.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: build/configuring-r8-for-compose/SKILL.md in skydoves/compose-performance-skills
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/configuring-r8-for-compose
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: DevOps — 798 skills

What Configuring R8 For Compose does

Configuring R8 For Compose explains how to set up minification for a Jetpack Compose app with R8 full mode, resource shrinking, and minimal keep rules. Use it when enabling release shrinking, fixing missing keeps, or checking why Compose does not need blanket keep rules.

Configuring R8 For Compose is cataloged under DevOps on DirSkills. Configuring R8 For Compose comes from a repository tagged agent-skills, android, claude, claude-code and compose.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Configuring R8 for Compose — Trust Consumer Rules, Avoid Blanket Keeps

R8 is the only supported shrinker — ProGuard is deprecated. Compose ships consumer ProGuard rules, so most apps need no Compose-specific keep rules. The big modern wins come from R8 full mode (default since AGP 8.0): lambda grouping, sourceInformation() stripping, constant-folding of composable args, and ComposerImpl devirtualization. This skill teaches Claude to set R8 up minimally and refuse over-broad keeps that defeat those wins.

When to use this skill

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Frequently asked about Configuring R8 For Compose

What else does skydoves publish alongside Configuring R8 For Compose?
Configuring R8 For Compose is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from skydoves/compose-performance-skills, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Auditing Compose Performance, Avoiding Subcomposition Pitfalls and Choosing DerivedStateOf. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Configuring R8 For Compose does, and is maintained by skydoves in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the skydoves/compose-performance-skills page.
How does Configuring R8 For Compose compare to other DevOps skills?
Configuring R8 For Compose ranks #712 by stars among the 798 DevOps skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Backend Patterns, API Connector Builder and Migration. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Configuring R8 For Compose against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.