The software supply-chain is far from all-smooth!
Sure, dependency management on Android projects is great, but there's room for improvement.

Some tasks, like upgrading dependencies to the right versions, are still tedious and time consuming. There are also compatibility gotchas because of the lack of metadata.

This talk will mention the different problems that come with dependency management in real-world projects, and then we will focus on the solutions from the present, and in the future.