Pramod Patel·Jan 18KSP v/s KAPT: Crushing the Android Build Time BottleneckIf there’s one universal experience that binds every Android developer together, it’s the stare.
InTowards DevbyKarishma Agrawal·Dec 26, 2025KAPT and KSP: why this migration exists at allIf you’ve worked on Android long enough, you’ve probably felt this without ever naming it:
Jamshidbek Boynazarov·Aug 28, 2025Leveraging Kotlin Symbol Processing (KSP) for Efficient Android Code GenerationAnnotation processing in Android used to mean slogging through Java’s clunky API, praying your build didn’t crawl to a halt. Kotlin Symbol…
Anand Gaur·May 14, 2025Kotlin Symbol Processing (KSP)If you’ve ever used Java’s Annotation Processing Tool (APT), you probably know how tricky things can get when you mix it with Kotlin. From…
Pourush·Apr 27, 2025“Superclass Access Check Failed” in Android Studio: JDK, AGP, KAPT, and the Hidden Pitfallsjava.lang.IllegalAccessError: superclass access check failed: class org.jetbrains.kotlin.kapt3.base.javac.KaptJavaCompiler…
Adityamishra·Apr 27, 2025Java Annotation Processors & Kotlin KAPT: A Deep DiveAnnotation processors transform your codebase behind the scenes. They scan for annotations at compile time, generate new code or resources…
InProAndroidDevbyDanil Perevalov·Apr 3, 2025Finding unnecessary Component Dependencies with Dagger SPIMany Android developers use Dagger or its “wrapper” Hilt for Dependency Injection. But not many of them use Dagger SPI. This mechanism…
Muhammad Ali·Mar 18, 2025What are Kapt and KSP?Whenever I implement libraries like Dagger Hilt, Room, or Retrofit, one question always comes to mind: Why do I need to put annotations in…
Jayant Kumar🇮🇳·Mar 9, 2025🚀 KAPT vs. KSP in Android Development: Which One Should You Use?Photo by Dietmar Becker on Unsplash
Anand Gaur·Feb 26, 2025Kotlin annotationProcessor, kapt, or ksp in GradleIn Gradle, annotationProcessor is a dependency configuration used for specifying dependencies that are annotation processors. Annotation…
