# Disabling Jetifier

DevFeed: [Disabling Jetifier](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/disabling-jetifier-25660.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://adambennett.dev/2020/08/disabling-jetifier/>)

Published: 2020-08-14T16:56:57Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [Posts on Adam Bennett](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/posts-on-adam-bennett.md>)

Topics: [Android](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/android.md>), [migration](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/migration.md>), [Gradle](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/gradle.md>), [build performance](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/build-performance.md>), [ide](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ide.md>)

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## AI overview

This article explains how Jetifier converts legacy Android support-library references in third-party binaries to AndroidX equivalents. It describes the build and Gradle configuration-time costs of Jetifier and recommends using the Can I Drop Jetifier Gradle plugin to identify dependencies that must be updated or removed before disabling it.

## Source excerpt

Way back in the early-ish days of Android we used the support libraries, android.support, to backport certain features to different API levels. These days those libraries have been replaced by the AndroidX packages, announced at I/O 2018 - but their legacy lives on and many of the dependencies that your app consume may still depend on these android.support packages.