# Methodcount

Published articles for Methodcount.

This is one page of public article previews, not the complete archive. Follow Next page to continue. Summaries are not the original full articles.

## Efficiently reducing your method count

DevFeed: [Efficiently reducing your method count](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/efficiently-reducing-your-method-count-28645.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://jeroenmols.com/blog/2016/05/06/methodcount/>)

Author: info@jeroenmols.com (Jeroen Mols)

Published: 2016-05-06T00:00:00Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [Jeroen Mols](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/jeroen-mols.md>)

Topics: [build times](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/build-times.md>), [Code](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/code.md>), [Gradle](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/gradle.md>), [legacy](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/legacy.md>), [App](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/app.md>)

Tags: [android](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/android.md>), [app](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/app.md>), [blogs](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/blogs.md>), [build](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/build.md>), [build-times](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/build-times.md>), [code](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/code.md>), [gradle-plugin](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/gradle-plugin.md>), [legacy](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/legacy.md>), [legacy-code](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/legacy-code.md>), [methodcount](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/methodcount.md>), [proguard](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/proguard.md>), [tools](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/tools.md>)

### AI overview

A tutorial on visualizing and reducing method counts in Android projects. It explains how to use the Dexcount Gradle Plugin to identify libraries that consume many methods, then discusses choosing smaller libraries, replacing dependencies, and using ProGuard to reduce method count.

### Source excerpt

As green field projects are a rare breed, chances are that you've inherited a legacy code base. If you're as lucky as me, that code base has over 65k methods causing the build times to be boringly slow.