# Even Better Protocol Buffers With Wire 2

DevFeed: [Even Better Protocol Buffers With Wire 2](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/even-better-protocol-buffers-with-wire-2-15631.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://developer.squareup.com/blog/even-better-protocol-buffers-with-wire-2>)

Author: Square Engineering

Published: 2015-10-28T16:10:00Z

Content type: release

Language: en

Sources: [Square Corner Blog RSS Feed](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/square-corner-blog-rss-feed.md>)

Topics: [Protocol (disambiguation)](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/protocol.md>), [Android](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/android.md>), [Java](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/java.md>), [Compiler](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/compiler.md>), [Structured-data](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/structured-data.md>)

Tags: [2-0-0](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/2-0-0.md>), [android](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/android.md>), [changelog](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/changelog.md>), [compiler](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/compiler.md>), [engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/engineering.md>), [feature](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/feature.md>), [features](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/features.md>), [java](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/java.md>), [protocol](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/protocol.md>), [release](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/release.md>), [schema](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/schema.md>)

## AI overview

Square announces Wire 2.0, an implementation of compact, immutable protocol buffers for Android and Java. Its schema-pruning features use include and exclude compiler options to remove unwanted generated code, helping reduce build overhead and APK size.

## Source excerpt

The new Wire release can shrink your schema.