: The impact of these tools on the developer experience and final user performance. jar or a more detailed outline for the paper?
For specific versions, you can sometimes find direct download links for prebuilt JARs on the R8 Google Storage bucket (note that r8.jar contains both the R8 and D8 interfaces). Blog Post: Master Your Android Builds with D8 d8.jar download
java -jar d8.jar --lib android.jar --output output_dir/ input_classes/ : The impact of these tools on the
dependencies implementation("com.android.tools.build:d8:8.0.0") // Yes, there is a direct D8 artifact! there is a direct D8 artifact!