android studio 1.2 gradle is very slow

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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

@kumarkundan while Smashing's solution to make gradle offline is a good workaround, updating to 1.2.2 resolved my issue — Muhammad Naderi, Aug 12 '15 at 22:08
Here is detailed post http://www.feelzdroid.com/2015/10/android-studio-gradle-build-speed-very-slow.html on how to improve too slow Android studio. — Naruto, Oct 24 '15 at 17:39

score 33 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 11:53

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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!.

edited May 23 '17 at 11:53

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answered May 04 '15 at 08:23

Smashing

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some how over time it got better, but I think it might be the effect of making it offline, since AS always uses daemon by default – Muhammad Naderi May 04 '15 at 09:22
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This issue still happened with gradle 1.5.0. And indeed, putting gradle to work offline did speed up the compile time. Thanks! – Alexey Dec 31 '15 at 11:48
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Thanks that made 10x diffrence – Ahmad Moussa Feb 01 '16 at 23:22

score 11 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 10 '15 at 09:03

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

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Sep 27 '15 at 20:12

Complete answer for this issue is as below:

Upgrade android studio to version 1.3(stable) or above 1.4(beta at the time of writing this).
Upgrade gradle to 1.3.+(+ can be replaced with some positive number) change it in your build.gradle file.
change your gradle-wrapper.properties files and add distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-2.4-all.zip in last(you can remove any old entry).
Go to Preference -> Gradle and set it to work offline.

woila!!! I am able to compile and run the code in less then ~5 sec (I really mean it)

sonique · Answer 4 · 2016-04-26T23:46:41.917

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The reason could be multiDex,

turn multiDexEnabled to false in your build.gradle file (for debug only, keep it for release).

android {
...
    defaultConfig {
        ...
        multiDexEnabled false
        ...
    }
}

In addition you should consider to use the lastest version (2.4 at the moment) by editing the gradle-wrapper.properties file and set gradle-2.4-all.zip

distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-2.4-all.zip

What is MultiDex : https://developer.android.com/tools/building/multidex.html

edited Apr 26 '16 at 23:46

answered Jul 01 '15 at 06:18

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Is there any other option to MultiDex in case you need it? I dont think apps are by default multidexed and setting multiDexEnabled false would make much of a difference. – Jalpesh Jul 31 '15 at 05:40
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turning off multidex is turning off features, not speeding up. there are projects which are bigger which would require multidex, so this is not helpful. – Hong Zhou Aug 03 '15 at 17:04
see my answer no need to do this – Ankit Sep 27 '15 at 20:13
Thanks, you save my day..:) – arif ardiansyah Jan 15 '16 at 07:33

score -5 · Answer 5 · answered Jul 28 '15 at 07:01

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From settings go to HTTP connection and disable any proxy and you will find speed you want

answered Jul 28 '15 at 07:01

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