android studio 1.2 gradle is very slow

Question

it's been a while that I'm using Android Studio, and up until now I was using 1.0.1, gradle was a bit slow, around 1.5 minute for assembleDebug (my project is really big!) but today I updated my AS to 1.2 and now same process takes about 7 to 10 minutes, and sometimes even with no result!

is there any setting I have to change to make it faster ? honestly taking 10 minute for every debug run is a nightmare !

Also most of the time, my cpu usage is arround 10 percent! (it is actually idle!) cause before when gradle was working it was on 100% almost all the time

Answer 1

had the same problem.

What I did was to change the global gradle settings to offline work which can be done by going to Preferences => Gradle. This did make a difference.

Another method I have seen people use, but which I have not used yet is to create a gradle.properties in the gradle folder like so:

Just create a file named gradle.properties in the following directory:

/home/<username>/.gradle/ (Linux) /Users/<username>/.gradle/ (Mac) C:\Users\<username>\.gradle (Windows) 

Add this line to the file:

org.gradle.daemon=true 

Please check out this link for more options as well as a detailed explanation on speeding up gradle.

Hope this helps!.

Answer 2

I was testing my app with Google+ log in. So I added release signing to debug version. App compiling in ~ 26 seconds.

build.gradle Module: app file

signingConfigs {     debug {         storeFile file(project.property("MyApp.signing"))         storePassword project.property("MyApp.signing.password")         keyAlias project.property("MyApp.signing.alias")         keyPassword project.property("MyApp.signing.password")     } } 

When I remove that ~ 7.5 seconds.

Next I tested offline grade

File - Settings - Build, Execution... - Build Tools - Gradle - Offline work

Now my app compiling in ~ 4.5 seconds.

Of course I also added turn on - Compile independent modules in parallel (may require larger heap size) - Make project automatically (only works while not running / debugging)

File - Settings - Build, Execution... - Compiler